Hua Lo-keng (11 October 1909-), mathematician. His papers dealing with number theory and with the geometry of matrices won him international recognition. After serving as professor of mathematics at Southwest Associated University, he went to the United States and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the University of Illinois. In 1950 […]

Ch'en Hsing-shen 陳省身 S. S. Chern Shüng-shen Chern Ch'en Hsing-shen (26 October 1911-), known as S. S. Chern, prominent mathematician, specialized in differential geometry and topology. He worked at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton (1943-46) and directed the institute of mathematics of the Academia Sinica (1945-48). In 1949 he returned to the United […]