Yau S.-T. (ed.) S.S. Chern: A Great Geometer of the Twentieth Century

International Press, 1992. — 319 p.The book 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. The book is essential for anyone who is interested in understanding Chern and his influence upon twentieth-century mathematics.S.S. Chern: My mathematical education.
R. Palais and C. Terng: The life and mathematics of Shiing-Shen Chern, dedicated to S.S. Chern for the celebration of has 79th Birthday.
C.N. Yang: S.S. Chern and I.
A. Weil: S.S. Chern as Geometer and Friend.
W.L. Chow: Shiing-Shen Chern, As friend and mathematician, A reminiscence on the occasion of his 80th Birthday.
I.M. Singer: S.S. Chern at Chicago.
Paul C.W. Chu: Professor S.S. Chern, My Father-in-law.
I. Kaplansky: Shiing-Shen Chern, with admiration as he approaches his 80th Birthday.
L. Nirenberg: Some personal remarks about S.S. Chern.
Felix E. Browder: S.S. Chern.
R. Lashof: Personal recollection of Chern at Chicago.
R. Bott: For the Chern Volume.
L. Auslander: Chern as teacher.
H. Suzuki: Reminiscences and acknowledgements.
P.A. Griffiths: Professor S.S. Chern, 79th birthday celebration.
W. Stoll: Shiing-Shen Chern's influence on Value Distribution; dedicated to Shiing-Shen Chern.
W. Klingenberg: My encouners with S.S. Chern.
Francois Haab and N.H. Kuiper: On the normall Gauss map of a tight smooth surface in R³.
J.Simons: My interaction with S.S. Chern.
M.P. do Carmo: S.S. Chern: Mathematical influences and reminiscences.
M. Berger: Riemannian manifolds: Prom curvature to topology, A brief historical overview.
B. Lawson: On Chern and Youth.
J. Cheeger: Remarks delivered at Chern's 79th Birthday Celebration.
Alan Weinstein: Some thoughts about S.S. Chern.
Robert Greene: S.S. Chern: Some mathematical and personal reminiscences.
S.Y. Cheng: My teacher S.S. Chern.
S.M. Webster: On being a Chern student.
J.P. Bourguignon: Shiing-Shen Chern, an optimist.
J. Wolfson: Chern, some recollections.
S.T. Yau: S.S. Chern as my teacher.
S.T. Yau: Open problems in differential geometry.