Unlocking Algebraic Topology: Key Invariants Explained | Oxford Mathematics Lecture

This is the first hour of André Henriques' fourth year Algebraic Topology course (a second lecture will follow soon). We recall a known algebraic invariants of spaces, the fundamental group, and spell out its desired properties (homotopy invariance). We then hint at some other algebraic invariants with similar properties, such as higher homotopy groups, homology, and cohomology.

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