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Connections, curvature, and cohomology. Vol. II: Lie groups, principal bundles, and characteristic classes. (English) Zbl 0335.57001
Pure and Applied Mathematics, 47-II. New York-London: Academic Press, a subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. XXI, 541 p. \$38.00 (1973).

##### MSC:
 57-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes 22-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to topological groups 53-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry 53C10 $$G$$-structures 53C20 Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching 55R10 Fiber bundles in algebraic topology 55R40 Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology 57R20 Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology 57S15 Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations 57T15 Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups 58A10 Differential forms in global analysis 58A30 Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) 58-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis