Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Shiing-Shen Chern
Born: October 26, 1911
Died: December 3, 2004 (aged 93)
Bio: Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology.
Known for:
- An Introduction to Riemann-Finsler Geometry (2000)
- Lectures on Differential Geometry (1999)
- Riemann-Finsler geometry
- Complex manifolds without potential theory (1967)
- A mathematician and his mathematical work (1996)