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We gave a brief description of how to set about defining the fundamental group of a space at the end of Chapter 1. We recall that the idea is to manufacture a group out of the set of loops in the space which begin and end at some specified point (usually referred to as the base point).
On a dit souvent que la géométrie est l’art de bien raisonner sur les figures mal faites.
H. Poincaré
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Armstrong, M.A. (1983). The Fundamental Group. In: Basic Topology. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1793-8_5
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