Professor Bang-Yen Chen: His Life and His Works

Year 2024, Volume: 17 Issue: 1, 1 - 5, 23.04.2024

Bogdan Suceava

https://doi.org/10.36890/iejg.1464739

Abstract

We recall several pieces of information about Professor Bang-Yen Chen’s life, works, as well as the lasting impact of his creative outcome. Our essay could prove useful to anyone interested in the history of differential geometry in the recent six decades. With over 36,000 citations (as presently recorded by ResearchGate), the body of work created by Bang-Yen Chen yields a meaningful impact to the mathematical community, especially in the area of differential geometry.

Keywords

Bang-Yen Chen, differential geometry, Chen invariants

References

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