Originally posted by: SpecialEd
The only way I can think of describing this in laymans terms is through an example.
Consider the sphere (a 2 dimensional manifold). At every point you have a tangent plane. The collection of tangent planes is the tangent bundle of the sphere.
The statment says that if I have a complex structure (the points on the sphere behave like complex numbers x+iy), then I get a complex module structure on the tangent bundle (module stucture means there is addition, multiplication and scalar multiplication).
You can do this for other 2 dimension manifolds such as the torus (ie surface of a donut).