Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern
Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern
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These selected papers of S.S. Chern discuss topics such as integral geometry in Klein spaces, a theorem on orientable surfaces in four-dimensional space, and transgression in associated bundles.
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Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern by Shiuyuen Cheng
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.
Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26, 1911 December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-born American mathematician and is regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century. Chern graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin, China in 1930; he received an M.S. degree in 1934 from Tsinghua University in Beijing and his doctorate from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 1936. A year later he returned to Tsinghua as a Professor of Mathematics. Chern was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, from 1943 to 1945. In 1946 he returned to China to become Acting Director of the Institute of Mathematics at the Academia Sinica in Nanjing. Chern returned to the United States in 1949 and taught at the University of Chicago, where he collaborated with Andre Weil, and later at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1961 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Chern served as Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society (1963 64) and was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the Wolf Prize in 1983. He helped found and was the director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley (1981 84) and in 1985 played an important role in the establishment of the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin, where he held several posts, including director, until his death.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9789810223854 |
| ISBN 10 | 9810223854 |
| Title | Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern |
| Author | Shiingshen Chern |
| Series | World Scientific Series In 20th Century Mathematics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 724 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |