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Characteristic classes

By John Milnor , James D. Stasheff

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1974
ISBN
9780691081229, 0-691-08122-0
LCC
QA613.618 .M54
Open Library ID
OL17755057M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (7054384 bytes)
Series
Annals of mathematics studies 76
Edition
1st edition
Pages
169\169
Topic
Mathematics Algebra
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

The theory of characteristic classes began in the year 1935 with almost simultaneous work by Hassler Whitney in the United States and Eduard Stiefel in Switzerland. Stiefel's thesis, written under the direction of Heinz Hopf, introduced and studied certain 'characteristic' homology classes determined by the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold.

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