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The aim of algebraic topology is to classify topological sets and continuous maps with the help of algebraic invariants. Actually most of these invariants define functors; these functors cannot distinguish between two objects which can be “deduced” from each other by a continuous deformation.
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Aubry, M. (1995). Basic Homotopy Theory. In: Homotopy Theory and Models. DMV Seminar, vol 24. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9086-1_1
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