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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
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MSRI & Zala Films
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Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
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This film was made possible with support from
SIMONS FOUNDATION