Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to develop a systematic procedure for determining the homology groups of a certain class of topological spaces. The class of topological spaces chosen consists of the CW-complexes of J. H. C. Whitehead. The procedure developed is a natural generalization and extension of the method used in the preceding chapter to determine the homology groups of graphs and compact 2-manifolds.
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Massey, W.S. (1980). Homology of CW-complexes. In: Singular Homology Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 70. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9231-6_4
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