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It is a great pleasure to address this symposium in honor of my dear friend, teacher, and collaborator. I first met Chern in 1950, when he dropped in to visit Princeton for just one day and I sat near him at lunch. I don’t suppose that you remember this occasion, my dear friend, though I am sure I contrived to attract your attention by some impertinence or other. For I was immediately captivated by what you said and how you said it.
This work supported in part through funds provided by the National Science Foundation under grant 33-966-7566-2.
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Bott, R. (1980). Equivariant Morse Theory and the Yang-Mills Equation on Riemann Surfaces. 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_2
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