Shiing Shen Chern, US / Chinese mathematician (Jia Xin, Chekiang Province 26 October 1911 – Tianjin 03 December 2004)

Considered as founder of global differential geometry and integral hyperbolic geometry

Introduced Hermitian geometry to multiple complexes

Introduced the concept of Hermitian connections

With E.H. Spanier proved Thom isomorphism independent from René Thom (1951)

Enunciated Chern theorem  (1953)

With Levine and Nirenberg defined intrinsic norm about complex manifold cohomology

HONORS

Mathematics Wolf Prize (1983)

Mathematics Shaw Prize (2004)

Asteroid Chern (29552)

EPONYMY

Chern characteristic class (1946)

Chern forms

Chern-Simons form  

Chern-Moser invariants (1974)

Chern-Simons invariants (1971)

Chern-Simons secondary characteristic class  

Bernstein-Heinz-Chern inequalities  

Chern-Barbosa method  

Chern-do Carmo-Kobayashi conjecture  

Chern character  

Chern-Weil homomorfism (1949)

Blaschke-Chern-Santalo theorem

Chern isomorphism