Shiing-Shen Chern

Prix

1. 1983/1984

   Prix Wolf — Mathématiques

   Mathématiques

   for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.

2. 2004

   Prix Shaw — Sciences mathématiques

   Mathématiques

   For his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.