Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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)