Characteristic classes

✍ Scribed by John Milnor, James D. Stasheff

• Book ID: 127447033
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Series: Annals of mathematics studies 76
• Edition: 1st edition
• Category: Library
• City: Princeton, N.J
• ISBN: 0691081220

✦ Synopsis

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.