edited by S Y Cheng (University of California, Los Angeles) , P Li (University of California, Irvine) , & G Tian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Professor Chern is regarded as the greatest geometer of his generation. For six decades, he has been a leader in the field of differential geometry. Professor Chern has extremely broad interests and has made seminal contributions to such diverse areas as web geometry, integral geometry, complex manifolds, minimal submanifolds and characteristics classes. His honors include the 1970 Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, the 1975 US National Medal of Science awarded by President Gerald Ford, the 1982 Alexander von Humbolt Award from the West Germany, the 1983 Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society, and the 1983–84 Wolf Prize by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. He holds many memberships including the Academia Sinica of China, Indian Mathematical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of London, London Mathematical Society, Academia des Sciences, Paris, and Academia des Sciences, Rome, to name a few. Professor Chern's brilliant research and teaching have exerted a deep and lasting influence on mathematics.
 

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.

• 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