Shiing-shen Chern 陳省身

Full film can be found in http://takingthelongviewfilm.com/ Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-shen Chern examines the life of a remarkable mathematician whose classical Chinese philosophical ideas helped him build bridges between China and the West. Shiing-shen Chern (1911-2004) is one of the fathers of modern differential geometry. His work at the Institute for Advanced Study and in China during and after World War II led to his teaching at the University of Chicago in 1949. Next came Berkeley, where he created a world-renowned center for geometry, and, in 1981, co-founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. During the 1980s, he brought talented Chinese scholars to the USA and Europe. By 1986, with Chinese government support, he established a math institute at Nankai University in Tianjin. Today it is called the Chern Institute of Mathematics. Film Credits TAKING THE LONG VIEW The Life of Shiing-shen Chern With (in order of appearance) C.N. YANG HUNG-HSI WU BERTRAM KOSTANT JAMES H. SIMONS SHIING-SHEN CHERN CALVIN MOORE PHILLIP GRIFFITHS ROBERT L. BRYANT MAY CHU YIMING LONG MOLIN GE UDO SIMON KARIN REICH WENTSUN WU ROBERT OSSERMAN ISADORE M. SINGER CHUU-LIAN TERNG ALAN WEINSTEIN GUODING HU PAUL CHERN ROB KIRBY WEIPING ZHANG ROBERT UOMINI FRIEDRICH HIRZEBRUCH ZIXIN HOU GANG TIAN LEI FU DELING HU A production of MSRI & Zala Films www.zalafilms.com www.msri.org © 2011 Mathematical Sciences Research Institute All Rights Reserved This film was made possible with support from SIMONS FOUNDATION