Shiing-Shen Chern

Shiing-Shen Chern

male, deceased (2004)
scientist, Tsinghua University alumni, Erdős number 2, Princeton University faculty, Chinese American, mathematician…Differentialgeometer, differential geometry and topology
Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26 1911 - December 3 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the...

Michael Anderson

male
Differentialgeometer, mathematics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Mathematics Educator, 3-manifold, Einstein metrics
Michael Anderson is a Professor of Mathematics in State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a differential geometer working on...
Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau

male, 60 years old
Stanford University faculty, Chaoshanese, University of California, San Diego faculty, scientist, Harvard University faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni…differential geometry, Differentialgeometer
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

male, deceased (1925)
mathematician, Differentialgeometer, Italian, ricci, from Emilia-Romagna, tensor calculus…The Absolute Differential Calculus
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (January 12, 1853 - August 6, 1925) was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the inventor of the tensor calculus...
Tullio Levi-Civita

Tullio Levi-Civita

male, deceased (1941)
Relativists, Jewish person, three-body problem, Italian, Differentialgeometer, theory of relativity…absolute differential calculus
Tullio Levi-Civita (March 29, 1873 - December 29, 1941) (pronounced le-vee chee-vee-tah) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on...
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

male, deceased (1855)
magnetism, electricity, Electrostatics, Gauß, Lutheran, From Braunschweig…Differentialgeometer, differential geometry
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

male, deceased (1955)
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Relativists, philosophy, Number theorist, Differentialgeometer, logic
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely i...
Grigori Perelman

Grigori Perelman

male, 43 years old
scientist, Jewish, Riemannian geometry, Poincaré conjecture, Fields Medal, Geometrization conjecture…Differentialgeometer
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, born 13 June 1966 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), sometimes known as Grisha Perelman, is a Russian...
Michael Spivak

Michael Spivak

male
ordered field, Universidad de Guanajuato, differential geometry, Real numbers, Morse theory, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus…Differentialgeometer
Michael David Spivak is a mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish...
Felix Klein

Felix Klein

male, deceased (1925)
mathematician, German, Differentialgeometer, Group theorist, non-euclidean geometry, geometry
Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 - June 22, 1925) was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory,...