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Course: Special Topics - Vector Bundles and Characteristic classes Level: Postgraduate Time: Currently not offered

Syllabus Past Exams Syllabus: Smooth manifolds, vector bundles, singular cohomology, Stiefel-Whitney classes, Grassman manifold and associated universal bundle, oriented bundles, Euler class, Thom isomorphism, complex manifolds and complex vector bundles, chern classes and Pontrjagin classes. Suggested Texts : (a) Milnor and Stasheff: Characteristic classes (b) Norman Steenrod: The Topology of Fibre Bundles Top of the page Past Exams

Midterm 25.pdf Semestral 25.pdf Supplementary and Back Paper Top of the page

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