Thorough, modern treatment, essentially from a homotopy theoretic viewpoint. Topics include homotopy and simplicial complexes, the fundamental group, homology theory, homotopy theory, homotopy groups and CW-Complexes, and other topics. Each chapter contains exercises and suggestions for further readi... read more
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Thorough, modern treatment, essentially from a homotopy theoretic viewpoint. Topics include homotopy and simplicial complexes, the fundamental group, homology theory, homotopy theory, homotopy groups and CW-Complexes, and other topics. Each chapter contains exercises and suggestions for further reading. 1980 corrected edition.
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