Timeline for Analogy between Stiefel-Whitney and Chern classes
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| May 13, 2020 at 17:39 | comment | added | Peter May | I agree. I gave a new proof of the splitting priniciple in math.uchicago.edu/~may/PAPERS/Split.pdf that emphasizes that point of view. | |
| May 13, 2020 at 0:47 | comment | added | Troshkin Michael | I like to imagine that these maps are part of the explanation of splitting principle, since $BT^n$ and $B(C_2)^n$ are classifying spaces for split bundles. This makes generators of their cohomology a sort of "universal Chern roots". | |
| May 11, 2020 at 4:14 | history | answered | Peter May | CC BY-SA 4.0 |