It was formulated by the Scottish mathematician William Vallance Douglas Hodge as a result of a work in between 1930 and 1940 to enrich the description of de Rham cohomology to include extra structure that is present in the case of complex algebraic varieties.
Det blev formuleret af den skotske matematiker William Vallance Douglas Hodge som et resultat af hans arbejde mellem 1930 og 1940 for at uddybe beskrivelsen af de Rhamkohomology til at inkludere ekstra strukture, der eksisterer for komplekse algebraiske varieteter.