It is widely considered to be his magnum opus. The silent r in "Chern" indicates a second-tone syllable, written "Chén" in pinyin but in practice often written by non-Chinese without the tonal mark. [13] Co-funded by Tsinghua and the Chinese Foundation of Culture and Education, Chern went to continue his study in mathematics in Germany with a scholarship. The unusual spelling "Chern" is a transliteration in the old Gwoyeu Romatzyh (GR) romanization for Mandarin Chinese used in the early twentieth-century China. II", "Finsler Geometry Is Just Riemannian Geometry without the Quadratic Restriction", National Science Foundation – The President's National Medal of Science, "Geometrical interpretation of the sinh-Gordon equation", "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute", "The Life and Mathematics of Shiing-Shen Chern", "Shiing-Shen Chern - The Mathematics Genealogy Project", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shiing-Shen_Chern&oldid=978141036, Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars, Members of the American Philosophical Society, Members of the French Academy of Sciences, Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Southwestern Associated University faculty, Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil), Republic of China people born during Qing, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Articles containing Chinese-language text, Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
I think that he, more than anyone, was the founder of one of the central areas of modern mathematics.”, His work extended over all the classic fields of differential geometry as well as more modern ones including general relativity, invariant theory, characteristic classes, cohomology theory, Morse theory, Fiber bundles, Sheaf theory, Cartan's theory of differential forms, etc. [17], The war prevented Chern from having regular contacts with the outside mathematical community. (Doctor of Science, which is equivalent to PhD) degree in February, 1936. By the end of 1948, Chern returned to the United States and IAS because of the Chinese Civil War.
He was known for unifying geometric and topological methods to prove stunning new results. The Shanghai Communiqué was issued by the United States and the People's Republic of China on February 27, 1972. Bao, David Dai-Wai; Chern, Shiing-Shen; Shen, Zhongmin, Editors, Shiing-Shen Chern, Zhongmin Shen, Riemann Finsler Geometry, World Scientific 2005, Shiing Shen Chern, Selected Papers, Vol I-IV, Springer, Shiing-Shen Chern, A Simple Intrinsic Proof of the Gauss-Bonnet Formula for Closed Riemannian Manifolds, Annals of Mathematics, 1944, Shiing-Shen Chern, Characteristic Classes of Hermitian Manifolds, Annals of Mathematics, 1946, Shiing Shen Chern, Geometrical Interpretation of the, Shiing Shen Chern, Geometry of a Quadratic Differential Form, Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1962, Shiing Shen Chern, On the Euclidean Connections in a Finsler Space, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1943, Shiing Shen Chern, General Relativity and differential geometry, Shiing Shen Chern, Deformation of surfaces preserving principle curvatures, Shiing Shen Chern, Differential Geometry and Integral Geometry, Shiing Shen Chern, Geometry of G-structures, Shiing-Shen Chern, Wei-Huan Chen, K. S. Lam, Lectures on Differential Geometry, World Scientific, 1999, David Dai-Wai Bao, Shiing-Shen Chern, Zhongmin Shen, An Introduction to Riemann-Finsler Geometry, GTM 200, Springer 2000, David Bao, Robert L. Bryant, Shiing-Shen Chern, Zhongmin Shen, Editors, A Sampler of Riemann-Finsler Geometry, MSRI Publications 50, Cambridge University Press 2004, This page was last edited on 13 September 2020, at 04:19. [15], For his third year, Blaschke recommended Chern to study in Paris. In 1982, while on sabbatical at the New York University Courant Institute, he visited Stony Brook to see his friends and former students CN Yang and Simons. On his wife he writes (also see Selected Papers):[2]. The relation to 11d Chern-Simons theory is made manifest in Dmitriy Belov, Greg Moore, Type II Actions from 11-Dimensional Chern-Simons Theories (arXiv:hep-th/0611020) Review is in Richard Szabo, section 3.6 and 4.6 of Quantization of Higher Abelian Gauge He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely 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 received numerous honors and awards in his life, including: Chern was given a number of honorary degrees, including from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (LL.D.
Chern said:[5]. Information for Physics 695, Fall 2013.
At the same time he also registered at Tsinghua Graduate School as a student. The process was slowed because of my association to Oppenheimer. What makes differential forms such an ideal tool for studying local and global geometric properties (and for relating them to each other) is their two complementary aspects. Usually the day after [meeting with Cartan] I would get a letter from him. The theory is named for Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, co-authors of a 1974 paper entitled "Characteristic Forms and Geometric Invariants," from which the theory arose. In August 1936, Chern watched the Summer Olympics in Berlin together with Chinese mathematician Hua Luogeng who paid Chern a brief visit. He also had a daughter, May Chu (陳璞; Chén Pú), wife of the physicist Chu Ching-wu, and a son named Paul (陳伯龍; Chén Bólóng). [17][2] Coincidentally, Ernest Preston Lane, former Chair at UChicago Department of Mathematics, was the doctoral advisor of Chern's undergraduate mentor at Tsinghua—Sun Guangyuan.
Because of the war, it took him a week to reach Princeton via US military aircraft. The relationship between these two nations started to normalize, and American citizens were allowed to visit China. [17] Three universities including Peking University, Tsinghua, and Nankai formed the temporary National Southwestern Associated University (NSAU), and relocated to Kunming, Yunnan province. His former residence, Ningyuan (寧園), is still in campus of Nankai University, kept in the way when he was living there. He was admired and respected by Chinese leaders Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin. Abraham Pais wrote about Chern in his book Subtle is the Lord. He was the youngest academician elected (at age 37). If there is credit for my mathematical works, it will be hers as well as mine.
There was something about him that people just listened to him, and usually did things his way.”[7], In 1979 a Chern Symposium offered him a honorary song in tribute:[2]. Introduction To Chern-Simons Theories Gregory W. Moore Abstract: These are lecture notes for a series of talks at the 2019 TASI school. He knew all these papers on simple Lie groups, Lie algebras, all by heart. Chern has 43 students, including Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau, Nobel Prize winner Chen-Ning Yang; and over 1000 descendants. During WW2, the US did not have much of a scene in geometry (which is why he chose to study in Germany). 1986), his alma mater Hamburg (D.Sc. [7] Regarding his influence in China and help raising a generation of new mathematicians, ZALA films says:[7], Several world-renowned figures, such as Gang Tian and Shing-Tung Yau, consider Chern the mentor who helped them study in western countries following the bleak years of the Cultural Revolution, when Chinese universities were closed and academic pursuits suppressed.
... we seemed to share a common attitude towards such subjects, or towards mathematics in general; we were both striving to strike at the root of each question while freeing our minds from preconceived notions about what others might have regarded as the right or the wrong way of dealing with it.
In contrast the bulk partition function of AdS(3) string theory is the modular-invariant partition function of the dual CFT on the boundary. Lecture 03 - Introduction to 2+1 dimensional Chern Simons … [11] On Chern, Weil wrote:[18]. Advanced Topics in Mathematical Physics, Fall 2010. will be offered instead. In 1954 he published his own treatment of the pseudogroup problem that is in effect the touchstone of Cartan's geometric theory. Chern died of heart failure at his home in Tianjin in 2004 at age 93. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. “Somehow he had a presence, a gravitas. A polyglot, he spoke German, French, English, Wu and Mandarin Chinese.
[30] His research on Finsler geometry is continued through Tian Gang, Paul C. Yang, and Sun-Yung Alice Chang of Princeton University. [13] He wrote his thesis in German, and it was titled Eine Invariantentheorie der Dreigewebe aus r-dimensionalen Mannigfaltigkeiten im R2r (English: An invariant theory of 3-webs of the r-dimensional manifold R2r). In his biography, Richard Palais and Chuu-Lian Terng have written[25]. 1982), Stony Brook University (D.Sc. For other uses, see, Mathematical, statistical, and computer sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medical Sciences, Division of Information Technical Sciences, 1943-1945 visit to the IAS, the Chern theorem, 1948-60 Back in the USA, University of Chicago, Visits to China and bridging East and West, Biographies on Chern and other memorabilia, CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, National Southwestern Associated University, United States National Academy of Sciences, Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University, value distribution theory of holomorphic functions, Robert G. Uomini and Louise B. Bidwell Foundation, "Shiing-Shen Chern 28 October 1911 — 3 December 2004", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, "12.06.2004 - Renowned mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern, who revitalized the study of geometry, has died at 93 in Tianjin, China", "Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Innovator in New Geometry, Dies", "Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern", "International Mathematical Union (IMU): Details", "Renowned mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern, who revitalized the study of geometry, has died at 93 in Tianjin, China", "Shiing-Shen Chern | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley", "On the Bott-Chern characteristic classes for coherent sheaves", "Hermitian vector bundles and the equidistribution of the zeroes of their holomorphic sections", "On the total curvature of immersed manifolds.
His work included areas currently-fashionable, perennial, foundational, and nascent:[2][25]. The MSRI also set up a Chern Professorship, funded by Chern's children May and Paul as well as James Simons.[36].
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