Timeline for Construction of the Stiefel-Whitney and Chern Classes
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| Apr 1, 2010 at 5:04 | answer | added | Dev Sinha | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 3, 2010 at 7:39 | comment | added | Aaron Mazel-Gee | Relatedly, here is a well-answered question I asked a while ago in an attempt to better understand those still-fairly-mysterious Steenrod squares: mathoverflow.net/questions/461/understanding-steenrod-squares | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 22:52 | answer | added | Charles Rezk | timeline score: 20 | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 19:57 | answer | added | Ilya Grigoriev | timeline score: 34 | |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 18:55 | comment | added | solbap | @Orbicular thanks! Spelling has never been my strong suit. | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 18:54 | history | edited | solbap | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 16:08 | comment | added | Tim Perutz | You're not the first to be flummoxed by Milnor-Stasheff's def of SW classes. The thing to do is to learn the axioms uniquely characterizing SW classes, prove existence by another method, and then view the M-S def as a theorem about Steenrod squares. Now those squares are just a tiny bit less mysterious! | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 16:01 | comment | added | Orbicular | Be careful not to mess up the name - the guy is called Stiefel (German for a certain type of boots)! | |
| Feb 2, 2010 at 10:47 | answer | added | Thorny | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Feb 2, 2010 at 9:49 | history | asked | solbap | CC BY-SA 2.5 |