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Topics in Differential Geometry : Selected papers & lectures of Shiing-Shen Chern, Paperback / softback Book

Topics in Differential Geometry : Selected papers & lectures of Shiing-Shen Chern Paperback / softback

Edited by Shiu-Yuen Cheng, Lizhen Ji

Part of the Surveys of Modern Mathematics series

Paperback / softback

Description

This volume presents a set of never-before-published notes from lectures given by S.-S.

Chern in 1951 on the topic of "Minimal Submanifolds in a Riemannian Manifold."Also presented are five of Chern's expository papers which complement the lecture notes and provide an overview of the scope and power of differential geometry: From Triangles to Manifolds, Curves and Surfaces in Euclidean Space, Characteristic Classes and Characteristic Forms, Geometry and Physics, and The Geometry of G-Structures.

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