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He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology.

Shiing-shen Chern was a Chinese mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebraic topology.

He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize. Chern worked at the Institute for Advanced Study —45 , spent about a decade at the University of Chicago , and then moved to University of California, Berkeley , where he cofounded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in and was the institute's founding director.

Chern was born in Xiushui, Jiaxing, China in At age 15, Chern entered the Faculty of Sciences of the Nankai University in Tianjin and was interested in physics, but not so much the laboratory, so he studied mathematics instead. Chern went to Beijing to work at the Tsinghua University Department of Mathematics as a teaching assistant. At the same time he also registered at Tsinghua Graduate School as a student.

He studied projective differential geometry under Sun Guangyuan , a University of Chicago -trained geometer and logician who was also from Zhejiang. Sun is another mentor of Chern who is considered a founder of modern Chinese mathematics. In , Chern published his first research article in the Tsinghua University Journal.

In the summer of , Chern graduated from Tsinghua with a master's degree, the first ever master's degree in mathematics issued in China. At Tsinghua, Hua Luogeng , also a mathematician, was Chern's colleague and roommate. In , Wilhelm Blaschke from the University of Hamburg visited Tsinghua and was impressed by Chern and his research.

Shiing-shen Chern was born on October 26, (a couple of weeks after the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty) in Kashing, Chekiang Province, China.

In , Chern received a scholarship to study in the United States at Princeton and Harvard , but at the time he wanted to study geometry and Europe was the center for the maths and sciences. He studied with the well-known Austrian geometer Wilhelm Blaschke. He had a three-year scholarship but finished his degree very quickly in two years. Doctor of Science , which is equivalent to PhD degree in February,