Twenty- second Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.answers.com/topic/chern-simons-form

This is a secondary source, which tell me te definition of Chern-simons form, which form was named after Shiing Shen Chern and James Harris Simons.

In mathematics, the Chern-Simons forms are certain secondary characteristic classes, They have been found to be of interest in gauge theory, and they (especially the 3-form) define the action of Chern-Simons theory.

twenty-first Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.answers.com/topic/shiing-shen-chern#Research

This is a secondary source, which informed the works that Chern had done so far.

Chern's work spreads over all the classic fields of differential geometry. It includes areas currently fashionable (the Chern-Simons theory arising from a 1974 paper written jointly with Jim Simons), perennial (the Chern-Weil theory linking curvature invariants to characteristic classes from 1944, after the Allendoerfer-Weil paper of 1943 on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem), the foundational (Chern classes), and some areas such as projective differential geometry and webs that have a lower profile. He published results in integral geometry, value distribution theory of holomorphic functions, and minimal submanifolds.

Twentyth Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.shawprize.org/en shawprize/2004/presentation/speeches/wuwenjum.html

This is a primary source, and a speech on Professor Shiing Shen Chern by Professor Wen-Tsun Wu.


" Chern's contribution to mathematic is both deep and broad. The Shaw Foundation is hornerd to award its first Prize in Mathematical Science to Professor Chern."

Nineteenth Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2004/mathematical/Chern/announcement.html

This is a primary source and a announcement on that Shiing Shen Chern had awarded the Shaw Prize for the mathematical science in 2004.

Eighteenth Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2004/mathematical/Chern/citation.html

This is a primary source, which brieftly describe his success in his life.

Shiing-Shen Chern was born in 1911 in China. He graduated from Nankai University in 1930 and the graduate school of Tsinghua University in 1934. He then furthered studies at the University of Hamburg. He has been professor at the Southwest Associated University, Kunming, China, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley. He founded the mathematics research institute at Nankai and is the honorary director since 1992.

Seventeenth Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2004/mathematical/Chern/autobiography.html

This is a autobiography wrote by Shiing Shen Chern himself, and it's a primary source. This autobiography tell us how his life goes.

And have been honored by many national academies in the world, as members or foreign members. Among them are the following:


- Academia Sinica 1948
- National Academy of Sciences US 1961
- American Philosophical Society 1989
- Royal Society of London 1985
- Academie des Sciences Paris 1989
- Russian Academy of Sciences 2001
- Chinese Academy of Sciences 1994
- Academia Nazionale dei Lincei 1988
- Third World Academy of Sciences 1983
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences 1971

Sixtennth Annotation

12/16/08
http://www.shawprize.org/common/img/laureates/2004/mathematical/Chern/autography.jpg

This is a primary source, which is a phtotgraph of Professor Shiiing Shen Chern, Laureate of the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Science in 2004.