Tsinghua University commemorates the 110th anniversary of Chen's birth

Beijing, 10 Oct (China News Service) -- The 110th anniversary of the birth of the famous mathematician Mr. Chen Shengshen was held at Tsinghua University on 10 October. Top scholars from the mathematical community at home and abroad gathered at Tsinghua to discuss the development of various branches of geometry since the 19th century and the influence of the holistic differential geometry pioneered by Mr. Chen Shengshen.

Chen was born on October 28, 1911 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and died on December 3, 2004. He graduated from Nankai University in 1930 and was admitted to Tsinghua University as one of the first graduate students of Tsinghua University and the first graduate student of the Department of Arithmetic. In 1934, he went to Germany to pursue a doctorate at the University of Hamburg, and later went to France to work with the mathematician Cartan.

Chen returned to China in 1937 and taught at Tsinghua University and Southwest Union University for 6 years. After that, he visited the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, united states, founded the National Institute of Mathematics in 1981 and served as the director, and founded the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in 1985 and served as the director. His seminal contributions to differential geometry and topology, especially in the study of integral differential geometry, had a great influence on the development of disciplines such as mathematics and even physics, and is recognized as one of the greatest geometricians of the twentieth century and is known as the "father of integral differential geometry".

Qiu Yong, president of Tsinghua University, pointed out that this year, the university launched the implementation of the Yau Chengtong Mathematical Science Leading Talent Training Program, and officially established the Truth Seeking College on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the school, which made an important step in innovating the talent training mode of basic disciplines and accelerating the improvement of the quality of mathematical talent training.

Chen Shengshen's student and Fields Medal winner Yau Chengtong pointed out that Mr. Chen's close combination of overall topology and spatial curvature has ushered in a new era of modern geometry and influenced disciplines such as physics.

Robert Degraaf, director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, recalled the history of Chen Shengsheng's visit to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and the completion of important academic breakthroughs in the 1940s, saying that this is a legend of academic exchanges between China and the United States. (End)

Source: China News Network