Characteristic classes

zbMath1079.57504MaRDI QIDQ5920520

James D. Stasheff, John W. Milnor

Publication date: 18 August 2005

Published in: Texts and Readings in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) (mathrm{O})- and (mathrm{SO})-cobordism (57R75) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10)

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