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When did Shiing-Shen Chern's study of differential geometry began to receive attention?

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Pioneered in the 19th cent. by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his studies of curves and surfaces differential geometry received little attention among mathematicians until the 1930s and 40s but Chern transformed this dormant branch of mathematics into a vibrant area of study.

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