Thursday, December 11, 2008

Tenth Annotation

12/11/08

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/109409/Shiing-shen-Chern


born October 26, 1911, Jiaxing, China

died December 3, 2004, Tianjin

Chinese American mathematician and educator whose researches in differential geometry developed ideas that now play a major role in mathematics and in mathematical physics.

This is a secondary source, this website informed me what Chern had successed for in his whole life, a biography of him.

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