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Introduced by Shiing-Shen Chern (1946).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Any of a group of characteristic classes associated with complex vector bundles, with applications in physics, string theory, etc. Full definition →
Introduced by Shiing-Shen Chern (1946).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.