Chern, a great geometer of the 20th century / editors, Shiu-Yuen Cheng, Shing-Tung Yau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheng, Shiu-Yuen, edtior.

Yau, Shing-Tung, 1949- editor.

Series:

Surveys in differential geometry ; v. 26.

Surveys in differential geometry ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematicians--United States--Biography.

Mathematicians.

Chern, Shiing-Shen, 1911-2004.

Chern, Shiing-Shen.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Chern, a great geometer of the twentieth century

Surveys in Differential Geometry 2021: Chern, a great geometer of the 20th century

Place of Publication:

Somerville, MA : International Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Deals with the life and work of the great twentieth-century mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern. Included are numerous pages of photographs; an autobiographical article recounting the formation of a mathematical mind and of a great war; historical and personal reminiscences by thirty distinguished mathematicians and physicists including Bott, Griffiths, Lawson, Nirenberg, Singer, Yang, Yau, and others; and a discussion of 100 open problems in geometry. " - publisher

Contents:

Revisiting S.S. Chern's article "The geometry of G-structures," 55 years after its publication / Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

A survey on Yau's uniformization conjecture / Bing-Long Chen and Xi-Ping Zhu

Rigidity of moduli spaces and algebro-geometric constructions / Benson Farb

3d spectral networks and classical Chern-Simons theory / Jixiang Fu, Shing-Tung Yau, and Dekai Zhang

Homological algebra and moduli spaces in topological field theories / Kenji Fukaya

Local scalar invariants of Kähler metric / Kefeng Liu and Hao Xu

Periodic and open classical spin Calogero-Moser chains / Nicolai Reshetikhin

Stochastic Kähler geometry : from random zeros to random metrics / Bernard Shiffman and Steve Zelditch

Shiing-Shen Chern : as a great geometer of 20th century / Shing-Tung Yao

Some recent results on multiplier ideal sheaves / Ziangyu Zhou

Boundedness and moduli of algebraic varieties / Caucher Birkar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781571464644

1571464646

OCLC:

1430212107

Publisher Number:

90102230140