The interview of chern

http://www.ams.org/notices/199807/chern.pdf

This is a article is based on an interview with Shiing Shen Chern conducted on march 4, 1998, by Allyn Jackson, with mathematical help from Dieter Kotschick.

In this article, chern was talking about the important work he did and a lot knowledge he think and he define. His main idea of the chern class is that you should do topology or global geometry in the complex case.The complex case has more structure and is in many ways simpler than the real case.