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Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (born 1911)

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Shiing-Shen Chern

Chinese-American mathematician and poet

Shiing-Shen Chern 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 is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest…
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