Mathematical Problem Solved After More Than 50 Years: Chern Numbers Of Algebraic Varieties

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 22:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Hirzebruch's problem at the interface of topology and algebraic geometry has occupied mathematicians for more than 50 years. A professor of mathematics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich has now solved this problem concerning the relationship between different mathematical structures.

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