Talk:Shiing-Shen Chern

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The family name capitalisation (CHERN) I have removed. Although I wish it were an English standard, there have been discussions about introducing it to en.WP and currently the consensus seems to be not to. If this position changes I will be more than happy to recapitalise it! VivaEmilyDavies 18:22, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

These web pages have newspaper obituaries

[1]

[2]

which include family details. Those seem to say that he had two children.

Charles Matthews 08:25, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Also this PDF from MSRI:

[3].

Charles Matthews 08:32, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Name ordering

I have moved the article back to Shiing-Shen Chern, as this Western order is the one used in mathematics, and Chern is not known under other orderings of his name. This is similar to Shing-Tung Yau or Fanghua Lin or Yuan T. Lee or Gang Tian, and standard convention in mathematics. Kusma (討論) 08:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)