Historical development of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem

DOI10.1007/s11425-008-0029-8zbMath1151.53008OpenAlexW1867045061MaRDI QIDQ943427

Hung-Hsi Wu

Publication date: 9 September 2008

Published in: Science in China. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-008-0029-8

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss-Bonnet theoremChern classescharacteristic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) History and biography (01-XX)

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