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    In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the GaussBonnet theorem (or GaussBonnet formula) is a fundamental formula which links the curvature...
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  • mathematics, the Chern theorem (or the ChernGaussBonnet theorem after Shiing-Shen Chern, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Pierre Ossian Bonnet) states that the...
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    with Chern include Jim Simons, an American mathematician and billionaire hedge fund manager. Chern's work, most notably the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, Chern–Simons...
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  • topological data). It includes many other theorems, such as the ChernGaussBonnet theorem and Riemann–Roch theorem, as special cases, and has applications...
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    hyperbolic geometry GaussBonnet theorem, a theorem about curvature in differential geometry for 2d surfaces ChernGaussBonnet theorem in differential geometry...
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  • highly abstract theorems from geometry to be used to gain insight, ranging from the ChernGaussBonnet theorem and the Riemann–Roch theorem to the Atiyah–Singer...
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  • transversal open coverings. Notoriously, the intrinsic ChernGaussBonnet theorem proved by Chern that the Euler characteristic of a closed affine manifold...
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  • Hsiang–Lawson's conjecture Theorema Egregium GaussBonnet theorem ChernGaussBonnet theorem Chern–Weil homomorphism Gauss map Second fundamental form Curvature...
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  • comparison theorem (Riemannian geometry) ChernGaussBonnet theorem (differential geometry) Classification of symmetric spaces (Lie theory) Darboux's theorem (symplectic...
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    curvature also carries over to orbifolds, along with the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem and Shiing-Shen Chern's proof thereof. Satake, I. (1956), "On a generalization...
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  • The Chern classes offer some information about this through, for instance, the Riemann–Roch theorem and the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. Chern classes...
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    Minister of Health Chern Shiing-Shen (陳省身; 1911–2004), Chinese-American mathematician, known for ChernGaussBonnet theorem, Chern class, Chern–Simons theory...
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  • Euler characteristic. The classification is consistent with the GaussBonnet theorem, which implies that for a closed surface with constant curvature...
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  • statement also follows from the ChernGaussBonnet theorem as noticed by John Milnor in 1955 (written down by Shiing-Shen Chern in 1955.). For manifolds of...
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    aspects such as the GaussBonnet theorem, the uniformization theorem, the von Mangoldt-Hadamard theorem, and the embeddability theorem. There are other important...
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  • in the late 1940s by Shiing-Shen Chern and André Weil, in the wake of proofs of the generalized GaussBonnet theorem. This theory was an important step...
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    the GaussBonnet theorem then provides a logical contradiction to the negativity of mass. As such, they were able to prove the positive mass theorem in...
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  • invariants was a particular reason to make a theory, to prove a general GaussBonnet theorem. When the theory was put on an organised basis around 1950 (with...
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  • establishing the fundamental theorems of Fourier analysis reduces to the Gaussian integral. The constant π appears in the GaussBonnet formula which relates...
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  • This theorem has a generalization to any compact even-dimensional Riemannian manifold, see generalized Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Nash embedding theorems. They...
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    projective geometry J. A. Todd (1908–1994) Daniel Pedoe (1910–1998) Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004) – differential geometry Ernst Witt (1911–1991) Rafael Artzy...
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  • differential geometry and before Chern had made history with his contributions to the generalized GaussBonnet theorem and the Chern classes.) We had much to...
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    polyhedra. Journal of Differential Geometry 1 (1967), 245–256. (Theorem of Gauß-Bonnet for Polyhedra) Benjamin Peirce Instructor, Harvard, 1964 - 1966...
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  • curvature has a clear relation to the topology of M, expressed by the GaussBonnet theorem: the total scalar curvature of M(being equal to twice the Gaussian...
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  • circle is 0. Vandermonde polynomial Thom isomorphism Generalized GaussBonnet theorem Chern class Pontryagin class Stiefel-Whitney class Bott, Raoul and Tu...
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  • the metrics appearing from the uniformization theorem. More generally, according to the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula, if M is a closed and connected manifold...
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  • Foucault pendulum, the path is a circle of latitude, and by the GaussBonnet theorem, the phase shift is given by the enclosed solid angle. In a near-inertial...
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  • formula might be understood as an infinite-dimensional analogue of the GaussBonnet theorem. At a later date, this theory was further developed and became the...
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    elementary but novel combination of the Gauss equation, the formula for second variation of area, and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, Schoen and Yau were able to rule...
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  • } The Euler characteristic; this follows from the work of Chern on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, where such μ {\displaystyle \mu } and ω {\displaystyle \omega...
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