First International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians

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First International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians is written by Stephen Shing-Toung Yau and published by American Mathematical Soc.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0821826522 (ISBN 10) and 9780821826522 (ISBN 13).

The International Congress of Mathematicians was an historical event that was held at the Morningside Center of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing). It was the first occasion where Chinese mathematicians from all over the world gathered to present their research. The Morningside Mathematics lectures were given by R. Borcherds, J. Coates, R. Graham, and D. Stroock. Other distinguished speakers included J.-P. Bourguignon, J. Jöst, M. Taylor, and S. L. Lee. Topics covered in the volume include algebra and representation theory, algebraic geometry, number theory and automorphic forms, Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis, mathematical physics, topology, complex analysis and complex geometry, computational mathematics, and combinatorics. Titles in this series are copublished with International Press, Cambridge, MA.