HOUSTON JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
Editorial, Electronic Edition Vol. 28, No. 2, 2002
Shiing-Shen Chern -- famed mathematicianCarrie Sturrock, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, December 9, 2004
He was a great mathematician partly because of the quality of his research as well as his ability to convey it to other people, UC Berkeley mathematics Professor Robin Hartshorne said. Professor Chern turned the once- dormant field of differential geometry, which deals with the mathematical description of geometric figures, into a lively field of study. He had the greatest impact on global differential geometry and complex algebraic geometry, which are fundamental to many areas of mathematics and theoretical physics.
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