Shiing-Shen Chern

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

MacTutor biography

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RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Differential and integral geometry

PhD students

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

  1. S. S. Chern. Wei-Liang Chow, 1911-1995 [see 1410978]. In Contemporary trends in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology (Tianjin, 2000), volume 5 of Nankai Tracts Math., pages 239-241. World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2002. Reprinted from Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1996), no. 10, 1117-1124.
  2. Shiing-Shen Chern, Lei Fu, and Richard Hain, editors. Contemporary trends in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology, volume 5 of Nankai Tracts in Mathematics. World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., River Edge, NJ, 2002. Selected papers from the conference held in Tianjin, October 9-13, 2000.
  3. S. S. Chern. Gauge theory at Tsinghua. Modern Phys. Lett. A, 17(33):2155-2156, 2002.
  4. S. S. Chern. On the connection in Finsler space. Chinese Ann. Math. Ser. B, 23(2):181-186, 2002. Dedicated to the memory of Jacques-Louis Lions.
  5. S. S. Chern and F. Hirzebruch, editors. Wolf Prize in mathematics. Vol. 2. World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., River Edge, NJ, 2001.

Shiing-Shen Chern

YEAR APPOINTED: 1960

YEAR RETIRED:  1979

YEAR DECEASED: 2004