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I don't know most of those Mathematical terms. Can you give me some references? I have the book by Nakahara but it doesn't seem to mention Chern number directly.

Hi all, I am new to topology & geometry. I skimmed through the subject in various books so I might be asking simple questions. My question is how can we say Chern's class belong to Integer rather than Real cohomology class? I assume one defines it through the characteristic polynomial of...