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We return to homology, seeking to compute homology groups more effectively. The spaces for which this search is successful, the so-called CW complexes introduced by J. H. C. Whitehead, generalize simplicial complexes; they have also proved to be of fundamental importance in homotopy theory.
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Rotman, J.J. (1988). CW Complexes. In: An Introduction to Algebraic Topology. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 119. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4576-6_9
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