1923 Enter Rotary Middle School in Tianjin.
1926 graduated from Rotary Middle School in Tianjin.
From 65438 to 0926, Chen Shengshen entered the Mathematics Department of Nankai University, where Professor Jiang Lifu had a great influence. When studying at Nankai University, he also worked as a teaching assistant for Jiang Lifu.
1930 graduated from Nankai University.
193 1 was admitted to Tsinghua University research institute and became one of the earliest mathematics graduate students in China.
1932 under the guidance of Dr. Sun Guangyuan, he published his first mathematical paper in Tsinghua University Science Report: a corresponding plane curve pair in projective differential geometry.
1932 Professor Brasic of Hamburg University who was invited to give lectures in China in April had such a great influence on Chen Shengshen that he decided to take differential geometry as his future research direction. In Tsinghua, Chen Shengshen once listened to Yang Zhenning's father Yang Wuzhi's class and worked as Yang Zhenning's teacher as an undergraduate.
1in the summer of 934, he graduated from Tsinghua University Research Institute with a master's degree and became the first mathematics graduate student trained by himself in China. In the same year, he won a scholarship from the China Cultural Education Foundation (one said it was funded by Tsinghua University) and went to study in the Mathematics Department of the University of Hamburg where Brassick was located.
1June, 935, 10 completed his doctoral thesis "Calculation of Network" and "Triple Network Invariance Theory of N-dimensional Manifolds in 2n-dimensional Space", which were published in the Proceedings of Mathematics Seminar of Hamburg University.
/kloc-0 received the doctor of science degree in February, 936; When I graduate, I still have a scholarship. In the summer of the same year, I was funded by the China Cultural Foundation, so I moved to Paris and studied differential geometry with E. Cartan. 1936- 1937 is engaged in research at the French geometry master e Gardiner. Ai Jiadang invites Chen Shengshen to his house for an hour every two weeks. Listening to you is better than studying for ten years. Face-to-face guidance from the master enabled Chen Shengshen to learn the teacher's mathematical language and way of thinking, which benefited him for life. Recalling this tense and happy time decades later, Chen Shengshen said, "Young people should study with the best people in this field." /kloc-in the summer of 0/937, he left France, returned to China via the United States, and was employed as a professor in the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University.
1938 moved to Kunming, Yunnan with the school because of the Anti-Japanese War, and Southwest Associated University, which consists of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University, teaches differential geometry.
1943, at the invitation of American mathematician O. Van Buren, went to Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies as a researcher. In the following two years, he published an epoch-making paper, the simple intrinsic proof of Gauss-Bonet formula of closed Riemannian manifold and the characteristic class of Hermite manifold. This is the most important work in his life, which has established his position in the history of mathematics.
1946 After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Chen Shengshen returned to Shanghai.
From 65438 to 0948, the Institute of Mathematics of Nanjing Academia Sinica was formally established, with Bobby Chen as the acting director and presiding over all the work of the Institute. He was also elected as the first academician of Academia Sinica. In the next two or three years, he trained a group of young topologists.
At the beginning of 1949, academia sinica moved to Taiwan Province province, and Chen Shengshen moved his family to the United States at the invitation of Oppenheimer, president of Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/949, he took over the professorship of E.P. Lane at the University of Chicago (E.P. Lane was Chen Shengshen's master tutor Sun Guangyuan's tutor when he was studying in the United States).
From 65438 to 0960, Chen Shengshen was employed as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, until his retirement.
196 1 year, Chen Shengshen was elected as an academician by the American Academy of Sciences and became an American citizen.
1963- 1964, vice chairman of the American mathematical society.
1972 In September, Chen Shengshen and his wife returned to New China for the first time and met with Guo Moruo, then president of China Academy of Sciences. 198 1 year, Chen Shengshen established the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as the first director until 1984.
After the return of Deng Xiaoping, the mathematical circles in China resumed their communication with the outside world. Chen Shengshen also began to help promote the revival of mathematics in China. 1977 On September 26th, Deng Xiaoping met with Chen Shengshen. On August 25th, 1984, Deng Xiaoping hosted a luncheon for Chen Shengshen and his wife, supported him as the director of the Institute of Mathematics of Nankai University, and encouraged him to work hard to develop mathematics in China. 1984, the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and People's Republic of China (PRC) hired Chen Shengshen as the director of Nankai Institute of Mathematics (to 1992).
198510 June 17 Nankai Institute of Mathematics was formally established. Chen Shengshen immediately took Nankai as the base, personally presided over academic activities, and trained many outstanding young mathematicians with the support of the mathematics community in China.
12, Deng Xiaoping hosted a luncheon in honor of Chen Shengshen and his wife. It was this meeting that triggered measures to raise the salaries of domestic intellectuals and grant special allowances to the State Council.
19891June 10, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Jiang Zemin, who had just been elected for a few months, met Chen Shengshen and his wife in Zhongnanhai and hosted a banquet. Later, Jiang Zemin met Chen Shengshen and his wife Zheng Shining several times.
1992-2004, Chen was promoted to honorary director of Tianjin Nankai Institute of Mathematics.
1995 Chen Shengshen was elected as the first foreign academician of China Academy of Sciences. 1999 was appointed as the first honorary president of Jiaxing College.
1998, he donated 1 10,000 dollars to establish the "Chen Shengshen Fund" for the development and use of Nankai Institute of Mathematics.
In 2000, he and his wife, Zheng Shining, returned to their alma mater, Nankai University, to settle down and personally give lectures to undergraduates and guide graduate students.
Starting from 200 1, Chen Shengshen conceived to establish an international mathematical research center in Nankai University. In order to attract talents and promote the development of Nankai mathematics. On July 22nd, 20001,Vice President Hu wrote to the Central Committee to apply for the establishment of an international mathematical research center in the name of. This matter has the support of Jiang Zemin.
On February 3, 2004 19: 00, Chen Shengshen died at the General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University at the age of 93.