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Fibre Bundles and the Physics of the Magnetic Monopole

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The Chern Symposium 1979

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It is a privilege on my part to speak at this symposium honoring Professor Chern. I think I can claim, among all the participants here, to have known him for the longest time, perhaps even longer than Mrs. Chern has know him.

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Yang, C.N. (1980). Fibre Bundles and the Physics of the Magnetic Monopole. In: Hsiang, WY., Kobayashi, S., Singer, I.M., Wolf, J., Wu, HH., Weinstein, A. (eds) The Chern Symposium 1979. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8109-9_11

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