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In Chapter 8, we have seen how to take a topological space and assign to it an algebraic object carrying some information about the topology of the space. However, homotopy groups are very hard to calculate. In this chapter we introduce “homology” groups, which can be thought of as a rough approximation to the homotopy groups of a space. In defining the homotopy groups of a space X, we considered all maps
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Crossley, M.D. (2010). Simplicial Homology. In: Essential Topology. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-194-6_9
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