Download or read book Mathematician And His Mathematical Work, A: Selected Papers Of S S Chern written by Shiu-yuen Cheng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-09-07 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.