Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Twenty-seventh Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/archives/000118.html

This is a secondary source, people responsed to the death of our greatest mathematician Chern.


Anonymous says:
December 6, 2004 at 2:19 pm
Sad news indeed. He seems to have been generous and an excellent mentor as well. Among his many outstanding students was the Fields Medallist Shing-Tung Yau of Calabi-Yau fame.


D R Lunsford says:
December 12, 2004 at 10:06 pm
I love the mathematical asides - otherwise I’d probably never know what was happening out there.
-drl

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