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Chen Bang-yen | |
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陳邦彦 | |
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| Born | October 3, 1943 Toucheng, Yilan, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Taiwanese, American |
| Alma mater | Tamkang University, National Tsing Hua University, University of Notre Dame |
| Known for | "Chen inequalities", "Chen invariants (or δ-invariants)", "Chen's conjectures", "Chen surface", "Chen–Ricci inequality", "Chen submanifold", "Chen equality", "Submanifolds of finite type", "Slant submanifolds", "ideal immersion", "(M+,M-)-theory for compact symmetric spaces & 2-numbers of Riemannian manifolds (joint with Tadashi Nagano)". |
| Children | Three Children - Two Girls, One Boy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Differential geometry, Riemannian Geometry, Geometry and topology |
| Institutions | Michigan State University |
| Thesis | On the G-total curvature and topology of immersed manifolds |
| Doctoral advisor | Tadashi Nagano |
| Doctoral students | Bogdan Suceavă |
| Website | www |
Chen Bang-yen is a Taiwan-born mathematician who works mainly on differential geometry and related subjects. He was a University Distinguished Professor of Michigan State University from 1990 to 2012. After 2012 he became University Distinguished professor emeritus.