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Shiing-Shen Chern notebooks, 1960-1977.
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Shiing-Shen Chern notebooks, 1960-1977Creator/Contributor:
Chern, Shiing-Shen, 1911-2004, creator, creator.Date:
1960 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- a-cc---Chern, Shiing-Shen -- 1911-2004 -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Mathematics -- Faculty
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Mathematics -- Research
Geometry, Differential -- Study and teaching
Geometry, Differential -- Research
Mathematicians -- United States
Mathematicians -- China
College teachers -- California -- Berkeley
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Shiing-Shen Chern notebooks, BANC MSS 2005/186 c , The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Shiing-Shen Chern (October 28, 1911 - December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental
contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and was
widelly regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous
awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize. Chern, who became a U.S. citizen in 1961, joined
UC Berkeley's mathematics department in 1960 and retired in 1979, only to return as cofounder and first director of the Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), the largest and most prominent math institute in the world.
In English.
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Faculty papers.Notebooks.
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print
0.2 (1
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English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
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