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Chern class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chern classes are named for Shiing-Shen Chern, who first gave a general definition of them in the 1940s. The formal properties of the Chern classes remain the same, with one crucial difference: the rule which computes the first Chern class of a tensor product of line bundles in terms of first Chern classes of the factors is not (ordinary) addition, but rather a formal group law. In algebraic geometry, this classification of (isomorphism classes of) complex line bundles by the first Chern class is a crude approximation to the classification of (isomorphism classes of) holomorphic line bundles by linear equivalence classes of divisors. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chern_class   (1863 words)

Shiing-Shen Chern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn; October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. His last name is pronounced "Chen", a common Chinese surname; the spelling "Chern" is the transliteration in the old Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization, with the silent "r" indicating a second-tone syllable in Mandarin, which is a tonal language. In his contribution to the IMU Millennium volume, Chern proposed that Finsler metrics would be important to the mathematics of the twenty-first century. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shiing-Shen_Chern   (564 words)

Shiing-Shen Chern Chern was born on October 26, 1911 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, 16 days after the revolution that overthrew the Manchurian Dynasty and ushered in modern China. Chern's sojourn at the IAS from August 1943 to December of 1945 changed the course of differential geometry and transcendental algebraic geometry, and changed his life as well. When Chern won a scholarship in 1934 to study abroad, he defied the conventional wisdom of going to the U.S. and chose to attend the University of Hamburg instead. www.universityofcalifornia.edu /senate/inmemoriam/shiingshenchern.htm   (996 words)

12.06.2004 - Renowned mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern, who revitalized the study of geometry, has died at 93 in Tianjin, China BERKELEY – Mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century and a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, died Dec. 3 at his home in the Chinese city of Tianjin. 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 the 1930s and '40s, Chern took the then-dormant field of differential geometry, which dealt with the mathematical description of geometric figures, and turned it into a vibrant area of study delving into the geometry of many dimensions and merging ultimately with the study of algebraic geometry and topology. www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2004/12/06_chern.shtml   (1023 words)

Shiing-shen Chern Biography / Biography of Shiing-shen Chern World of Mathematics Biography Chern was rapidly made professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he remained for 11 years until, in 1960, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley. Chern was born in what is now known as Jiaxing in Zhejiang in China. In a lifetime of achievement and awards the one fact that must give Chern the greatest pleasure must be his role in transforming differential geometry from a little studied area into a major topic area in mathematics. www.bookrags.com /biography-shiing-shen-chern-wom   (416 words)

UH Today - FAMED MATHEMATICIAN S.S. CHERN, EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT UH, DIES Chern was the father-in-law of UH Professor of Physics Paul Chu, who holds the TLL Temple Chair of Science and is Founding Director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity. Chern passed away Dec. 3, according to press reports, on the campus of Nankai University, where he served as director of its mathematics center. Born in 1911, Chern graduated from Nankai University in 1930. www.uh.edu /uhcnonline/2004/12dec/120704chernobit.html   (400 words)

Chern, Shiing-shen Chern returned to the United States in 1949 and taught at the University of Chicago until 1960, when he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Chern was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., from 1943 to 1945. Chern became a member of the American Mathematical Society and served as vice president from 1963 to 1964. www.phy.bg.ac.yu /web_projects/giants/chern.html   (255 words)

Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Math whiz Shiing-shen Chern dies at 93 Shiing-shen Chern, a Chinese-American mathematician famous for his breakthroughs in differential geometry, died Friday in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin. Chern's particular field of research led to the development of the later-named Chern characteristic classes in fiber spaces that came to play a role in a wide area of mathematics and mathematical physics. Chern returned to China after the death of the communist state's founder, Mao Zedong, in 1976, and in 1985 established the Institute for Mathematics at Nankai and served as its first director. www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/12/03/math_whiz_shiing_shen_chern_dies_at_93?mode=PF   (360 words)

Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Innovator in New Geometry, Is Dead Chern is survived by a son, Paul, of Needham, Mass., and a daughter, May Chu, of Houston. Chern retired in 1979, but two years later returned to full-time work when he founded Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute with Dr. Moore and Dr. Isadore Singer, now at M.I.T. Dr. Chern was the director of the institute, which offers postdoctoral research positions, from 1981 to 1984. Chern classes and later advances in differential geometry have now found applications in fields as diverse as string theory in theoretical physics and computer graphics. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1296301/posts   (905 words)

Shiing-Shen Chern -- famed mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern, the famed UC Berkeley mathematician whose name is immortalized in the "Chern classes" of differential geometry, died Friday in Tianjian, China. A Chern class is a numerical invariant attached to complex manifolds -- an object of study in differential geometry. Professor Chern turned the once- dormant field of differential geometry, which deals with the mathematical description of geometric figures, into a lively field of study. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/09/BAG9BA8CAR1.DTL   (569 words)

Chern Professor Chern is also Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, and Director Emeritus of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (M.S.R.I.). Chern had been an editor of the Houston Journal of Mathematics from 1992 to 2000. Professor Chern has rather broad but impeccable tastes in Mathematics. www.math.uh.edu /UH_NEW/graduate/History/Chern/chern.html   (233 words)

Comments on: Shiing-Shen Chern 1911-2004 Chern classes (and characters) are a way of systematically classifying the possible types of field configurations: trivial (0), monopole (1), etc.. Chern classes (and characters) are a way of systematically classifying the possible types of field configurations: trivial (0), monopole (1), etc... Chern classes and Chern-Simons theory are discussed in Baez and Muniain, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity. www.math.columbia.edu /~woit/wordpress?feed=rss2&p=118   (1580 words)

In Memoriam: Shiing-Shen Chern, 1911-2004 Professor Shiing-Shen Chern, one of the outstanding mathematicians of the twentieth century, died at age 93 in Tianjin, China, on December 3, 2004 at the Nankai Institute that he helped to found on the campus of Tianjin University where he received his undergraduate degree in 1930. There is impressive testimony of his influence on his students and on geometers throughout the world in Chern, A Great Geometer of the Twentieth Century, a collection of personal statements and articles compiled in 1992 by his student, Fields medalist S. Yau. My contribution, “On Becoming and Being a Chern Student” chronicles my personal debt of gratitude for his support throughout my career, even when I moved away from his favorite differential forms approach in the direction of polyhedral differential geometry and computer visualization of surfaces. www.maa.org /features/120904chern.html   (703 words)

show_article Shiing-Shen Chern, cofounder and first Director of MSRI (1982-85), died on Friday, December 3, 2004, after a brief illness in China. Aside from his fundamental contributions in geometry, including the eponymous "Chern classes," he was mentor to many, many mathematicians both in the United States (he taught at the University of Chicago and then, for most of his career, at UC Berkeley) and in China. Chern was truly a towering figure in 20th century mathematics. www.msri.org /communications/articles/ShowArticleInfo/69/show_article   (159 words)

Shiing-Shen Chern History Summary Chern was born in 1911 in Jiaxing, China, where he eventually studied at Nankai University in Tientsin. After World War II when Chern returned to China to work, the civil war made life too difficult and he opted to accept an attractive offer from Princeton, where he had previously spent two years on staff. Chern won many prizes and medals, including the National Medal of Science and the Wolf Prize. www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/shiing-shen-chern-scit-06123   (182 words)

UC Berkeley Mathematics The Shiing-Shen Chern Chair in Mathematics is established in honor of Professor Emeritus Shiing-Shen Chern and his contributions to the field of Mathematics. The Shiing-Shen Chern Chair in Mathematics will provide support for the activities of the Department of Mathematics. Professor Chern is widely regarded as the greatest geometer of his generation. math.berkeley.edu /index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=4   (272 words)

04.09.96 - UC Berkeley mathematics alumnus uses 1995 California lottery winnings to endow annual campus professorship The 85-year-old Chern, now professor emeritus of mathematics, is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of his generation. Chern urged him to reapply, though, and this time, with Chern's strong support, he got in. As he completed his coursework for an A.B. in mathematics in 1969, Uomini applied to graduate school at Berkeley, but despite a letter from Chern he was turned down, primarily because of his poor grades. www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/96legacy/releases.96/14351.html   (705 words)

Locana: Shiing-Shen Chern The New York Times obituary of prominent mathematician S.S. Chern who died last friday. This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. locana.blogspot.com /2004/12/shiing-shen-chern.html   (38 words)

Lectures on Differential Geometry (Series on University Mathematics, Volume 1) by Shiing-Shen Chern - Direct Textbook Details and Reviews It deserves cautions that in chapter 8, Chern introduce the connection proposed by himself in 1948, which is the proper tools for finsler geometry. The original Chinese text, authored by Professor Chern and Professor Wei-Huan Chen, was a unique contribution to the mathematics literature, combining simplicity and economy of approach with depth of contents. This book is a translation of an authoritative introductory text based on a lecture series delivered by the renowned differential geometer, Professor S S Chern in Beijing University in 1980. www.directtextbook.com /reviews/9810241828   (564 words)

Publications of Robert L Bryant Finsler structures on the 2-sphere satisfying K=1, in Finsler geometry (Seattle, WA, 1995), Contemporary Mathematics, edited by David Bao, Shiing-shen Chern and Zhongmin Shen, vol. with David Bao, S.-S. Chern, Zhongmin Shen, eds., A sampler of Riemann-Finsler geometry, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, edited by Bao, David and Bryant, Robert L. and Chern, Shiing-Shen, vol. with Shiing-Shen Chern and Phillip Griffiths, Exterior differential systems, in Proceedings of the 1980 Beijing Symposium on Differential Geometry and Differential Equations (Beijing, 1980), edited by S. Chern and Wen Tsün Wu, vol. fds.duke.edu /db/aas/math/faculty/bryant/publications.html   (1281 words)

Amazon.ca: A Mathematician and His Mathematical Work: Selected Papers of S S Chern: Books Professor Chern is regarded as the greatest geometer of his generation. Professor Chern has extremely broad interests and has made seminal contributions to such diverse areas as web geometry, integral geometry, complex manifolds, minimal submanifolds and characteristics classes. Professor Chern's brilliant research and teaching have exerted a deep and lasting influence on mathematics. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/9810223854   (308 words)

The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Shiing-Shen Chern According to our current on-line database, Shiing-Shen Chern has 46 students and 541 descendants. If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form. Click here to see the students listed in chronological order. www.genealogy.ams.org /html/id.phtml?id=6424   (66 words)

ZoomInfo Web Summary: Shen Chern Click to find more people named Shen Chern... Having devoted a lifetime to the teaching and research of Mathematics, in particular, Geometry, Chern considers the differential geometry of fiber spaces ones of his most important works. Upon his return to China, Chern became a professor of Mathematics at Tsinghua. www.zoominfo.com /directory/Chern_Shen_623894194.htm   (131 words)

Blogger: Email Post to a Friend Professor Shiing Shen Chern, one of the greatest mathematicians and geometers of twentieth century, recently passed away. Here's an excellent link to a biography of his written by the staff of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, one of the three mathematical institutes Professor Chern helped founded (the other two being the Institute of Mathematics at Academia Sinica and the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin, China) He was born in 1911, and died on December 7, 2004. www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7448221&postID=110291044666716140   (157 words)

Get "Complex Manifolds Without ..." at your library Complex manifolds without potential theory : with an appendix on the geometry of characteristic classes / Shiing-shen Chern. www.redlightgreen.com /ucwprod/servlet/ucw.servlets.UCWController?ACTION=EDITION&WORKID=10227868&LANGUAGE=ENG&MATERIAL=books&FROMRSLT=1&FROMWORK=1&lang=english&MOREDETAIL=yes   (58 words)

Some new characterizations of the Euclidean sphere, Shiing-shen Chern Some new characterizations of the Euclidean sphere, Shiing-shen Chern Please recommend that your library subscribe to DMJ and DMJ 100 by printing one or both of the following forms and submitting them directly to your library. If you would like to purchase this specific document for $25, please click the "buy article" button below. projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.dmj/1077473104   (72 words)

Mathematics : Publications since January 2005 David Anderson, Jonathan Mattingly, H. Frederik Nijhout, Michael Reed, Propagation of Fluctuations in Biochemical Systems, I: Linear SSC Networks (2005) [math.PR/0510642] [abs]. Frederik Nijhout, Michael C. Reed, David Anderson, Jonathan Mattingly, S. Jill james, and Cornelia M. Ulrich, Long-Range Allosteric Interactions between the Folate and Methionine Cycles Stabilize DNA Methylation Reaction Rate (Fall, 2005). Anderson, J. Mattingly, F. Nijhout, M.C. Reed, Propagation of Fluctuations in Biochemical Systems, I: Linear SSC Networks (2005). fds.duke.edu /db/aas/math/publications.html   (2438 words)

Citation Index \bib{Che}{article}{ author = {Chern, Shiing-Shen}, title = {On the Kinematic Formula in Integral Geometry}, journal = {Indiana Univ. Math. @ARTICLE{Che, author = "Shiing-Shen Chern", title = "On the Kinematic Formula in Integral Geometry", journal = "Indiana Univ. Math. www.iumj.indiana.edu /oai/1967/16/16006/16006.html   (93 words)

S Shen, Cheap Books, Compare Book Prices in A Click! Global Analysis Part 1 (Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, V. by Symposium in Pure Mathematics University of California at Berkeley 196 Smale S s S Chern Shiing-Shen Chern Stephen Smale American Mathematical Society Scot Litke Chih-Kang Shen Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors Wang Tianxu Zhang Jun Shen Patrick S-P Wang T. www.cheapbooks.info /authors/S_Shen   (278 words)

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