A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology
by J. Peter May · J. Peter May
Fast-paced graduate text from the Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, treating the fundamental group, covering spaces, cofibrations and fibrations, homotopy groups, CW complexes, axiomatic homology and cohomology, and characteristic classes. Readers gain the homotopy-theoretic viewpoint used in modern research, best after a first course.
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