Gauss–Bonnet theorem
Teorema de Gauss-Bonnet
- Date
- 1848 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Ossian Bonnet y Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A formula linking a surface's curvature to its underlying topology, developed by Gauss but left unpublished, and published as a special case by Pierre Ossian Bonnet in 1848.
What it led to
- Global differential geometry
- Surface topology
- General relativity and spacetime geometry
- Index theory and characteristic classes