Chen Shengshen 1930 graduated from private Nankai University, 1934 graduated from Tsinghua University Research Institute, and then went to Hamburg University for further study. He once taught in The National SouthWest Associated University and Princeton University, and was the founding director of Nankai Institute of Mathematics. Chen Shengshen initiated and led the research in the fields of global differential geometry, fiber bundle differential geometry and "Chen Shengshen indicator class". He was the first China native to win the Wolff Prize, the highest honor in the world of mathematics, and was praised as "the father of differential geometry" by the international mathematics community. On June 2, 2004, Chen Shengshen awarded the "asteroid naming certificate". On that day, the International Asteroid Center named an asteroid "Chen Shengshen Star".
Chen Shengshen's life:
1911was born in Jiaxing county, Zhejiang province on October 28th.
1930 graduated from Tianjin Nankai University.
1934 obtained the Master of Science degree from Tsinghua University.
1936 received the doctor of science degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
1938 was a professor in The National SouthWest Associated University.
1943 is a researcher at Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies.
1946 Acting Director, Institute of Mathematics, Nanjing Academia Sinica.
1949 is a professor at the University of Chicago.
1960- 1979, Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
196 1 year, became an American citizen.
From 198 1 to 1984, he served as the first director of the Berkeley Institute of Mathematics.
The director of Tianjin Nankai Institute of Mathematics is from 1984 to 1992, and the honorary director is from 1992.
He used to be the first academician of Academia Sinica (1948), academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (196 1), founding academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences (1983), foreign academician of the Royal Society (1985), and foreign academician of the Italian National Academy of Sciences (). 1994 was elected as the first batch of foreign academicians of China Academy of Sciences.
Has won important awards, such as:
National Science Award awarded by the President of the United States (1975);
Steele Award for "All Achievements" of American Mathematical Society (1983);
Humboldt Prize in Germany (1982);
Wolff Prize, the highest prize in world mathematics (1984);
Chen Xing Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics (20065438+0); Lobachevsky Medal awarded by Kazan University (2002);
Won the first Shaw Prize in Mathematical Science (2004);
The first academician of Academia Sinica (1948);
Academician of the National Academy of Sciences (1961);
Foreign member of the Royal Society (1985);
Foreign academician of the French Academy (1989);
Foreign Academician of Italian Academy of Sciences in Lin Qin (1988);
Founder of the Third World Academy of Sciences (1983);
Fellow of Communication, Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1971);
On June 8, 1994 was elected as the first batch of foreign academicians of China Academy of Sciences;
Other honors won by Mr. Chen Shengshen include: (invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians for three times) 1950 Cambridge, USA;
Edinburgh, Scotland 1958,
Nice, France 1970.
Main works: 1. Some topics of differential geometry, mimeographed by Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, USA, 195 1.
2. Differential Manifolds, University of Chicago mimeograph 1953.
3. University of Chicago complex manifold,1956; University of Recife, Brazil 1959 edition; Russian translation 196 1 version.
4. Global Geometry and Analytical Studies (edited), American Mathematical Association, 1967 edition.
5. Complex manifolds without potential principle, van Nordstrand 1968; Springer Publishing House, second edition.
6. Minimal submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds, mimeographed by University of Kansas 1968.
7. Lectures on Differential Geometry (co-author), published by Peking University Publishing House 1983.
8. Selected Works of Chen Shengshen (Volume 1-4), published by springer Publishing House in 1978 and 1989.
9. Research on Global Differential Geometry (edited), American Mathematical Association, 1988 edition.
10. Selected Works of Chen Shengshen-Biography, Popular Speech and Others, published by Science Press 1989.
1 1. wolf prize in mathematics (Volume I), edited by Chen Shengshen and Hilse Bruch, published by Singapore World Science Press in 2000.
12. Contemporary trends of algebraic geometry and algebraic topology, Chen Shengshen, Fu Lei, Hain, World Science, 2002.