Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern by Shiuyuen Cheng

Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern by Shiuyuen Cheng

This volume is about the life and work of Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-), one of the leading mathematicians of this century. The book contains personal accounts by some friends, together with a summary of the mathematical works by Chern himself. Besides a selection of the mathematical papers the book also contains all his papers published after 1988.

Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26, 1911 December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-born American mathematician and is regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century. Chern graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin, China in 1930; he received an M.S. degree in 1934 from Tsinghua University in Beijing and his doctorate from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 1936. A year later he returned to Tsinghua as a Professor of Mathematics. Chern was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, from 1943 to 1945. In 1946 he returned to China to become Acting Director of the Institute of Mathematics at the Academia Sinica in Nanjing. Chern returned to the United States in 1949 and taught at the University of Chicago, where he collaborated with Andre Weil, and later at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1961 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Chern served as Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society (1963 64) and was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the Wolf Prize in 1983. He helped found and was the director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley (1981 84) and in 1985 played an important role in the establishment of the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin, where he held several posts, including director, until his death.

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ISBN 13	9789810223854
ISBN 10	9810223854
Titre	Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern
Auteur	Shiingshen Chern
Série	World Scientific Series In 20th Century Mathematics
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Année de publication	1996-09-01
Nombre de pages	724
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