MATHEMATICIAN AND HIS MATHEMATICAL WORK, A: SELECTED PAPERS OF S S CHERN

Professor Chern is regarded as the greatest geometer of his generation. For six decades, he has been a leader in the field of differential geometry. Professor Chern has extremely broad interests and has made seminal contributions to such diverse areas as web geometry, integral geometry, complex manifolds, minimal submanifolds and characteristics classes.

His honors include the 1970 Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, the 1975 US National Medal of Science awarded by President Gerald Ford, the 1982 Alexander von Humbolt Award from the West Germany, the 1983 Steele Prize by the American Mathematical Society, and the 1983-84 Wolf Prize by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.

He holds many memberships including the Academia Sinica of China, Indian Mathematical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of London, London Mathematical Society, Academia des Sciences, Paris, and Academia des Sciences, Rome, to name a few.

Professor Chern’s brilliant research and teaching have exerted a deep and lasting influence on mathematics.