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
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
Shing-Tung Yau
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Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese American mathematician and educator. He is the first ethnic Chinese Fields medalist and director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professo
Shiing-Shen Chern
…Afterward he became the honorary director of the institute. MSRI now is one of the largest and most prominent mathematical institutes in the world. Shing-Tung Yau was one of his PhD students during this period, and he later won the Fields Medal in 1982. During WW2, the US did not have much of a scene in geometry…
丘成桐 Shing Tung Yau