Shiing shen chern biography of albert

◀▲▶History / 20th-century / Person: Chern, Shiing-shen

Shiing-shen Chern was a Chinese mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebraic topology.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

• Shiing-shen Chern, whose name can also be written as Chen Xingshen, was educated at home as well as occasionally attending Chia-hsing elementary school from the winter of 1917 until 1920.
• There Chern came to love mathematics and avidly solved the problems in Higher Algebra by H S Hall and S R Knight, and in geometry and trigonometry books by George Albert Wentworth and David Eugene Smith.
• This small university had about 300 students in total and Chern was one of a mathematics class of four students.
• After four years of study at Nankai University Chern was awarded a diploma and a B.Sc.

  in mathematics in 1930.

• There were few opportunities for mathematical research in China at this time but someone who was undertaking research