Chern, a great geometer of the 20th century /
Chern, a great geometer of the 20th century /
Chern, a great geometer of the twentieth century Surveys in Differential Geometry 2021: Chern, a great geometer of the 20th century
editors, Shiu-Yuen Cheng, Shing-Tung Yau.
- vii, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Surveys in differential geometry ; v. 26 .
- Surveys in differential geometry ; v. 26. .
Includes bibliographical references.
"Deals with the life and work of the great twentieth-century mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern. Included are numerous pages of photographs; an autobiographical article recounting the formation of a mathematical mind and of a great war; historical and personal reminiscences by thirty distinguished mathematicians and physicists including Bott, Griffiths, Lawson, Nirenberg, Singer, Yang, Yau, and others; and a discussion of 100 open problems in geometry. " - publisher
9781571464644 1571464646
Chern, Shiing-Shen, 1911-2004.
Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
516.36 / S963
Includes bibliographical references.
"Deals with the life and work of the great twentieth-century mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern. Included are numerous pages of photographs; an autobiographical article recounting the formation of a mathematical mind and of a great war; historical and personal reminiscences by thirty distinguished mathematicians and physicists including Bott, Griffiths, Lawson, Nirenberg, Singer, Yang, Yau, and others; and a discussion of 100 open problems in geometry. " - publisher
9781571464644 1571464646
Chern, Shiing-Shen, 1911-2004.
Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
516.36 / S963