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Having defined polyhedron, complex, and orientation for complexes in the preceding chapter, we are now ready for the precise definition of the homology groups. Intuitively speaking, the homology groups of a complex describe the arrangement of the simplexes in the complex thereby telling us about the “holes” in the associated polyhedron.
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Croom, F.H. (1978). Simplicial Homology Groups. In: Basic Concepts of Algebraic Topology. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9475-4_2
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