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One necessary annoyance when dealing with the fundamental group is keeping the base point under control. Let us discuss another approach that does not require base points, but which leads necessarily to something other than the fundamental group.
Others [topological invariants] were discovered by Poincaré. They are all tied up with his homology theory which is perhaps the most profound and far reaching creation in all topology.
S. Lefschetz
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Bredon, G.E. (1993). Homology Theory. In: Topology and Geometry. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 139. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6848-0_4
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