The subject of Combinatorial Algebraic Topology is in a certain sense a classical one, since modern algebraic topology derives its roots from dealing with various combinatorially defined complexes and with combinatorial operations on them. Yet the aspects of the theory that we consider here and that we distinguish under the title of this book are far from classical and have been brought to the attention of the general mathematical public fairly recently.
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(2008). Overture. In: Combinatorial Algebraic Topology. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71962-5_1
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