Subject: question about char. classes
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:23:16 +0400 (IRT)
From: rezazadegan@math.sharif.edu

There is a sentense in

"M. Atyiah Collected works, vol 3  ,p77"

about charecteristic classes wich says:

"Roughly speaking one considers the cycles where a given number of vector
fields becomes linearly dependent."

What is the meaning of this sentence?