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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.

724pp Pub. date: Sept 1996
ISBN 978-981-02-2385-4
981-02-2385-4
US$91 / £63


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Updated on 12 May 2008