Chern Class

Chern Class

In mathematics, in particular in algebraic topology, differential geometry and algebraic geometry, the Chern classes are characteristic classes associated to complex vector bundles.

Chern classes were introduced by Shiing-Shen Chern (1946).

Read more about Chern Class:  The Chern Class of Line Bundles, Properties of Chern Classes

Famous quotes containing the word class:

    “There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.”
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)