Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
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The classes \(c_i(E)\) determined by \(x^n+c_1(E)x^{n-1}+\cdots+c_n(E)=0\) are called the Chern classes of \(E\), and \(c(E)=1+c_1(E)+\cdots+c_n(E)\) is its total Chern class.