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We begin this monograph by introducing the main objects of study in homotopy theory: CW complexes and their homotopy groups. The topological spaces (manifolds, polyhedra, real algebraic varieties, … ) that arise in geometric contexts are all CW complexes.
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Félix, Y., Halperin, S., Thomas, JC. (2001). CW complexes, homotopy groups and cofibrations. In: Rational Homotopy Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 205. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0105-9_2
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