Élie Cartan
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Élie Joseph Cartan was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems, and differential geometry. He also made significant contributions
Professor Élie Joseph Cartan
Shiing-Shen Chern
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Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-born American mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" an
Élie Cartan
…in 1940 and spent the last years of his life teaching mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure for girls. As a student of Cartan, the geometer Shiing-Shen Chern wrote: Usually the day after [meeting with Cartan] I would get a letter from him. He would say, “After you left, I thought more about your questions...”—he…
Chern in 1988
Tombstone of Chern and his wife at Nankai University
The Shiing-Shen Building (省身楼) in Nankai University, in which the Chern Institute of Mathematics is located