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I love how Yoneda is trivial but implies nine bajillion awesome things. I gave a talk today about spin geometry and stiefel whitney classes, and if you think of a characteristic class as a natural transformation Prin_G => H*, then Yoneda says characteristic classes are classified by H*(BG)!
Mar 5, 2025, 1:33 AM
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