There are 5 great Geometry Masters in history: 欧高黎嘉陈
Euclid (300 BCE, Greece), Gauss (18CE, Germany), Riemann (19CE, Germany), Cartan (20CE, France), Chern (21CE, China).
Jim Simons (Hedge Fund Billionaire, Chern’s PhD Student) quoted Chern had said to him:
“If you do One Thing that is reallygood, that’s all you could really expect in a life time.” 一生作好一件事, 此生足矣!
Highlights:
1. Video below @82:00 mins, SS Chern criticised on Hardy’s famous statement: “Great Math is only discovered by young mathematicians before 30.” Chern’s response: “Don’t believe it ! 不要相信它”.
2. Chern’s Conjecture :“21世纪中国将是数学大国。 ” China will be a Math Kingdom in 21st century.