Definition:Gauge Theory/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Gauge Theory
The ideas behind gauge theory have been used by Simon Kirwan Donaldson to study the gemoetric and topological properties of $4$-dimensional spaces.
He has shown that their properties are fundamentally different from spaces of lower or higher dimension.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): gauge theory
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): gauge theory