Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern
Will be published approx. on 1. September 1996
Book
Hardback
724 pages
978-981-02-2385-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 37 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 256 mm
Weight
1370 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-02-2385-4 (9789810223854)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
The life and mathematics of S.S. 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. (Part contents).