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Who is Shiing-Shen Chern?

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Shiing-Shen Chern 1911-2004 Chinese-American mathematician b. Kashing (now Jiaxing) China D.Sc. Hamburg 1936. While undertaking graduate studies in China (1932-34) Chern developed what became a lifelong interest in differential geometry .

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