Timeline for Is there a reason for defining the differential forms before the vector fields ?
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| Jun 3, 2010 at 23:41 | answer | added | Georges Elencwajg | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 20:20 | comment | added | Paul Siegel | You will have to wait for an algebraic geometer to get a precise answer (perhaps you already have one below), but there is good motivation for taking differential forms as more fundamental in differential topology. Specifically, differential forms are easily organized into a cohomology theory while vector fields are not. I suspect, but cannot verify from experience, that one's interest in differential forms on a scheme also stems from their relation to cohomology. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 20:13 | answer | added | Heinrich Hartmann | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 19:27 | answer | added | Donu Arapura | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 18:34 | history | asked | user2330 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |