Thursday, October 30, 2008

Fourth Annotation

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/shiingshenchern.htm

this is the letter that wrote form Hung-Hsi WuShoshichi, Kobayashi and Alan Weinstein. they say that  Shiing-Shen Chern is the professor of mathematics, Emeritua UC Berkeley in 1911-2004. and this letter was describe his whole life between china and American. There say " A large part of modern algebraic geometry would not exist without Chern classes." when he finally returned to china for good in 1999, the well being of the institute became his final project. he made ambitious plans that were only partially realized at the time of his death.

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