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Presents two sets of never-before-published notes from lectures given by S.-S. Chern. Differential Manifolds gives a smooth and rapid introduction to differential manifolds and differential geometry; Lectures on Integral Geometry is an accessible introduction to that subject.

Presents a set of never-before-published notes from lectures given by S.-S. Chern in 1951 on the topic of ""Minimal Submanifolds in a Riemannian Manifold"". Also presented are five of Chern's expository papers which complement the lecture notes and provide an overview of the scope and power of differential geometry.