Algebraic Topology — Cambridge Part II Lecture Notes
by Oscar Randal-Williams · University of Cambridge (DPMMS)
Roughly eighty pages of Cambridge undergraduate notes whose longest chapter develops simplicial homology from chain complexes: homological algebra, explicit calculations, the Mayer-Vietoris sequence, homotopy invariance, homology of spheres and surfaces, Euler and Lefschetz numbers.
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