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...