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World Scientific Series in 20th Century Mathematics - Vol. 4
A MATHEMATICIAN AND HIS MATHEMATICAL WORK
Selected Papers of S S Chern
edited by S Y Cheng (University of California, Los Angeles), P Li (University of California, Irvine) & G Tian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
This volume is about the life and work of Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–), one of the leading mathematicians of this century. The book contains personal accounts by some friends, together with a summary of the mathematical works by Chern himself. Besides a selection of the mathematical papers the book also contains all his papers published after 1988.
Contents:
- The Life and Mathematics of Shiing-Shen Chern
- On Integral Geometry
in Klein Spaces
- A Simple Intrinsic Proof of the Gauss–Bonnet Formula for Closed Riemannian Manifolds
- A Theorem on Orientable Surfaces in Four-Dimensional Space
- Hermitian Vector Bundles and the Equidistribution of the Zeroes of Their Holomorphic Sections
- Intrinsic Norms on a Complex Manifold
- Characteristic Forms and Geometrical Invariants
- Dupin Submanifolds in Lie Sphere Geometry
- An Introduction to Dupin Submanifolds
- Transgression in Associated Bundles
- On a Notable Connection in Finsler Geometry
- and other papers
Readership: Mathematicians.
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Pub. date: Sept 1996 |
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