Fifth Annotation

11/06/08

http://www.ams.org/notices/199807/chern.pdf


This website gives me an interviews with Shing Shen Chern when he was still alive, and there was a poem written by Chern. This interview told a completed and detailed story of Chern's life.

Following is the poem written by Chern:


Physics and geometry are one family.

Together and holding hands they roam to the limits of outer space.

Black hole and monopole exhaust the secret of myths;

Fiber and connections weave to interlace the roseate clouds.

Evolution equations describe solitons;

Dual curvatures defines instantons.

Surprisingly, Math, has earned its rightful place for man and in sky;

Fondling flowers with a smile -- just wish nothing is said.



This is a primary source, because it had inclued some pictures which was taken by him, and this is a interview.