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For the reader who might have been alarmed by the category-theoretic approach of the last chapter, this chapter, which discusses Milnor’s K2 functor, will seem a comforting retreat to more familiar territory. However, we will need to refer to the homology of a group, at least in order to speak of H2. Since group homology will be needed in a more serious way in the next chapter anyway, we provide a brief introduction to the subject later in this section. The reader who wants a more serious approach to the homology theory of groups and its applications should consult a source such as [Brown] or [CartanEilenberg].
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Rosenberg, J. (1994). Milnor’s K2. In: Algebraic K-Theory and Its Applications. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 147. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4314-4_4
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