Quote of the day
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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)








