Lectures on Introduction to Algebraic Topology
by G. de Rham
Publisher: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1969
ISBN/ASIN: B0006CSS4C
Number of pages: 71
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These are notes of a part of lectures which the author gave at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1966. They were intended as a first introduction to algebraic Topology. Contents: Definition and general properties of the fundamental group; Free products of groups and their quotients; On calculation of fundamental groups; The group of a tame link given by a good plane projection; etc.
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