| Foreword | |
| The Life and Mathematics of Shiing-Shen Chern | p. 1 |
| My Mathematical Education | p. 46 |
| A Summary of My Scientific Life and Works | p. 61 |
| S. S. Chern as Geometer and Friend | p. 72 |
| Some Reflections on the Mathematical Contributions of S. S. Chern | p. 76 |
| Shiing-Shen Chern as Friend and Mathematician | p. 83 |
| Abzahlungen fur Gewebe | p. 95 |
| On Integral Geometry in Klein Spaces | p. 103 |
| A Simple Intrinsic Proof of the Gauss-Bonnet Formula for Closed Riemannian Manifolds | p. 115 |
| On the Curvatura Integra in a Riemannian Manifold | p. 121 |
| Characteristic Classes of Hermitian Manifolds | p. 132 |
| Sur une Classe Remarquable de Varietes dans l'espace Projectif a N Dimensions | p. 169 |
| A Theorem on Orientable Surfaces in Four-Dimensional Space | p. 178 |
| On the Kinematic Formula in the Euclidean Space of N Dimensions | p. 183 |
| On a Generalization of Kahler Geometry | p. 193 |
| On the Total Curvature of Immersed Manifolds | p. 212 |
| On the Index of a Fibered Manifold | p. 225 |
| On the Total Curvature of Immersed Manifolds, II | p. 235 |
| Integral Formulas for Hypersurfaces in Euclidean Space and Their Applications to Uniqueness Theorems | p. 243 |
| A Uniqueness Theorem on Closed Convex Hypersurfaces in Euclidean Space | p. 252 |
| The Integrated Form of the First Main Theorem for Complex Analytic Mappings in Several Complex Variables | p. 256 |
| Hermitian Vector Bundles and the Equidistribution of the Zeroes of Their Holomorphic Sections | p. 272 |
| On the Kinematic Formula in Integral Geometry | p. 314 |
| Intrinsic Norms on a Complex Manifold | p. 332 |
| Some Formulas Related to Complex Transgression | p. 353 |
| Characteristic Forms and Geometric Invariants | p. 363 |
| Real Hypersurfaces in Complex Manifolds | p. 385 |
| An Analogue of Backlund's Theorem in Affine Geometry | p. 438 |
| From Triangles to Manifolds | p. 458 |
| Lie Groups and KdV Equations | p. 469 |
| Deformation of Surfaces Preserving Principal Curvatures | p. 480 |
| Dupin Submanifolds in Lie Sphere Geometry | p. 491 |
| Historical Remarks on Gauss-Bonnet | p. 539 |
| What is Geometry? | p. 548 |
| An Introduction to Dupin Submanifolds | p. 556 |
| Families of Hypersurfaces under Contact Transformations in R[superscript n] | p. 564 |
| Surface Theory with Darboux and Bianchi | p. 572 |
| Transgression in Associated Bundles | p. 583 |
| Characteristic Classes and Characteristic Forms | p. 594 |
| On Finsler Geometry | p. 603 |
| Yang-Mills Equations and Yang-Baxter Equations | p. 608 |
| On a Notable Connection in Finsler Geometry | p. 613 |
| Characteristic Classes as a Geometric Object | p. 659 |
| Sophus Lie and Differential Geometry | p. 665 |
| Projective Geometry and Riemann's Mapping Problem | p. 674 |
| Curriculum Vitae | p. 695 |
| List of Ph.D. Theses written under the supervision of S. S. Chern | p. 697 |
| Bibliography of the Publications of S. S. Chern | p. 699 |
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