Some Historical Remarks Concerning Degree Theory

DOI10.2307/2321135zbMath0463.55002OpenAlexW4246526034MaRDI QIDQ3914081

Hans-Willi Siegberg

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2321135

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss-Bonnet theoremdegree theorylinking numbercurvature integralKronecker characteristicKronecker integral, Sturm chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degree, winding number (55M25) Fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58C30) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of algebraic topology (55-03)

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