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In this part I retrace the history (until around 1960) of two fundamental concepts, homotopy groups and fibrations, and of their interactions both between themselves and with homology and other structures.
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Dieudonné, J. (2009). Introduction. In: A History of Algebraic and Differential Topology, 1900 - 1960. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4907-4_14
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