SHIING-SHEN CHERN (1911 - 2004)
The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2004
is awarded to
SHIING-SHEN CHERN
for his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.
27 May 2004
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