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unusual facts about Shiing-Shen Chern


Gwoyeu Romatzyh

Some prominent Chinese have used GR to transliterate their names: for example the mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern.


Chern–Simons form

The theory is named for Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, co-authors of a 1974 paper entitled "Characteristic Forms and Geometric Invariants," from which the theory arose.

Chern–Simons theory

The Chern–Simons theory, named after Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, is a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type, developed by Edward Witten.


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