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The most intuitively evident topological invariant of a space is the number of connected pieces into which it falls. Over the past one hundred years or so we have come to realize that this primitive notion admits in some sense two higher-dimensional analogues. These are the homotopy and cohomology groups of the space in question.
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Bott, R., Tu, L.W. (1982). Introduction. In: Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 82. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3951-0_1
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