"I have no doubt that future historians of differential geometry will rank Chern as the worthly successor of Elie Cartan in that field."
— Shiing-Shen Chern

January 1, 1970

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Mathematicians from the United StatesNational Medal of Science laureatesWolf Prize in Mathematics laureatesUniversity of California, Berkeley facultyMathematicians from China
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