In recognition of professor Shiing-Shen Chern's long and distinguished
service to mathematics and to the University of California, the
geometers at Berkeley held an International Symposium in Global Analysis
and Global Geometry in his honor in June 1979. The output of this
Symposium was published in a series of three separate volumes,
comprising approximately a third of Professor Chern's total publications
up to 1979. Later, a fourth volume was published, focusing on papers
written during the Eighties. This first volume comprises selected papers
written between 1932 and 1975. In making the selections, Professor Chern
gave preference to shorter and lesser-known papers.