Selected Papers

In recognition of professor Shiing-shen Chern's long and distinguished service to mathematics and to the University of California, the geometers at Berkely held an International Symposium in Global Analysis and Global Geometry in his honor at Berkely in June 1979. The publication of the present volume is the outgrowth of the Symposium. The papers in this Selecta volume comprise approximately a third of Professor Chern's total output up to 1979. In making the selections, Professor Chern has given preference to shorter and less accessible papers.