1926 15 years old entered the Department of Mathematics of Nankai University, and 1930 was admitted to Tsinghua University as a graduate student. /kloc-went abroad for further study in 0/934, and studied geometry under the famous geometrician Brahikai in Hamburg, Germany. 1936 came to Paris to study differential geometry with Tang Jia. /kloc-in the summer of 0/937, he accepted the recruitment letter from Professor Tsinghua University to teach differential geometry. At that time, Yang Zhenning and Zhong Kailai became his students. Later, he taught at Princeton University, University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley.
Chen Shengshen founded the former Institute of Mathematics of Academia Sinica, the National Institute of Mathematics of the United States, Nankai Institute of Mathematics and other research institutions. 196 1 was elected as an academician by the American Academy of Sciences, and 1975 was awarded the National Science Medal by the President of the United States. He is also a foreign member of the Royal Society, a foreign academician of the Academy of Lindsay in Italy, a foreign academician of the National Academies of France, Italy and Russia, a communication academician of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and the founder of the Third World Academy of Sciences. 198 1 After retirement, he served as the first director of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences for three years, and then served as honorary director.
1983 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Mathematical Society. 1May, 984, won the Wolf Prize, the highest prize in mathematics in the world. 1994 was elected as the first batch of foreign academicians of China Academy of Sciences.
Mr. Chen Shengshen is a great geometer in the 20th century and the pride of Chinese all over the world. He initiated and led the research in the fields of global differential geometry, fiber bundle differential geometry and "Bobby Chen's incarnation class", enjoying the reputation of "the father of differential geometry" internationally.
In his later years, he loved his hometown, and returned to the Institute of Mathematics of Nankai University in Tianjin every year to take charge of his work and cultivate new people, just to realize his dream: to make China a great mathematical country in the 2 1 century.