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SHIING-SHEN CHERN
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26 OCTOBER 1911 * 3 DECEMBER 2004
SHIING-SHEN CHERN, one of the giants in the history of geometry, passed away in Tianjin, China, on 3 December 2004 at the age of ninety-three. He had spent the last five years of his life in Tianjin, but his career was established mainly in the U.S. from 1950 to 1999.
Chern's work revitalized and reshaped differential geometry and transcendental algebraic geometry, two major areas of contemporary mathematical research. In the decades before 1944...
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