Hua luogeng biography of albert
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
abstract:
This article argues that the first important comprehensive efforts by US mathematicians to survey, translate, and disseminate the work of Chinese mathematicians resulted from Cold War geopolitical and scientific competition and economic pressures that emerged in the s and s. The success of the American Mathematical Society's (AMS) translation program and its journal Chinese Mathematics depended less on official diplomatic channels and more on an informal network of Chinese American mathematicians and librarians in the United States, which provided the infrastructure and hidden labor necessary for transnational mathematical exchange and translation. The history of the Chinese translation project demonstrates the importance of moving beyond the biographies and work of established mathematicians to capture the broader transpacific social history of Chinese American mathematical research and technical labor in the early Cold War.
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Shiing-Shen Chern
Chinese-American mathematician and poet
"Chern" redirects here. For other uses, see Chern (disambiguation).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Chern (Chen).
Shiing-Shen Chern (; Chinese: 陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn, Mandarin:[tʂʰə̌n.ɕìŋ.ʂə́n]; October 28, – December 3, ) was a Chinese American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In memory of Shiing-Shen Chern, the International Mathematical Union established the Chern Medal in to recognize "an individual whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition f
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List of autodidacts
This is a list of notable autodidacts. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. Some notables listed did receive formal educations, including some college, although not in the field(s) for which they became prominent.
Historical education levels
[edit]Main article: Autodidacticism §&#;Historical education levels
Because of the large increase in years of education since , especially during the early 20th century, it is difficult to define autodidactism and to compare autodidacts during different time periods.
Artists and authors
[edit]- Sardoine Mia, Congolese artist and painter
- Ellen Gould White, Adventist writer.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist writer, lecturer, and thinker at the turn of the 20th century
- Suzanne Valadon, self-taught artist of Bohemian Paris
- Sor Juana Inés dem la Cruz, self-taught scholar and poet of New Spain
- Benjamin barn (–), British sociologist, was not given a formal education.[