Thursday, December 11, 2008

Thirteenth Annotation

12/11/08

http://math.berkeley.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=31

This is a secondary source, on this website people appraise Chern about how his contribution to the mathematical field.


"He's a towering figure in 20th-century mathematics," said Dr. Calvin C. Moore, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

"He is somebody that had a broad outlook toward people," said Hartshorne. "It's not a warm department, and he was a warm person."

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