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Volume 70, Issue 72,
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
News Renowned mathematician Chern dead at 93 Cougar News Services Shiing-Shen Chern, an acclaimed mathematician and distinguished visiting professor emeritus, died Dec. 3 at 93. Chern died on the campus of Nankai University in Tianjin, where he served as director of the math center, according to press reports. The apparent cause was heart failure. He was considered the greatest differential geometer of the 20th century; one of his creations, Chern Classes, is a fundamental principle of mathematical physics. Chern was born in 1911, attended college in China and then taught in the United States during World War II. He became a U.S. citizen, visited and gave lectures at UH in 1988. From 1992 until 2000, he was an editor of the Houston Journal of Mathematics, which is published by UH's math department. Chern was the father-in-law of Paul Chu, the UH physics professor who founded the Texas Center for Superconductivity. "He lived a full life, and one can't ask for more
than that," Chu said in a release. "But he still had many things he wanted
to complete. This is a great loss."
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