Variations on a theme of homotopy

Timothy Porter

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques (2013)

  • Volume: 22, Issue: 5, page 1045-1089
  • ISSN: 0240-2963

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The aim of this article is to bring together various themes from fairly elementary homotopy theory and to examine them, in part, from a historical and philosophical viewpoint.

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Porter, Timothy. "Variations on a theme of homotopy." Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques 22.5 (2013): 1045-1089. <http://eudml.org/doc/275327>.

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