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Why do finite homotopy groups imply finite homology groups?
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Definition of “simplicial complex”
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Learning Topology
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Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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Homotopy groups of Lie groups
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Periods and commas in mathematical writing
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Survey articles on homotopy groups of spheres
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Parallelizability of the Milnor’s exotic spheres in dimension 7
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nontrivial $\pi_2(Diff(M))$
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Why do wedges of spheres often appear in combinatorics?
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Are there pairs of highly connected finite CW-complexes with the same homotopy groups?
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Detecting homotopy nontriviality of an element in a torsion homotopy group
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Fibers of fibrations of a 3-manifold over $S^1$
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Spectral sequences: opening the black box slowly with an example
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Fundamental group of the line with the double origin.
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An elementary proof that the degree of a map of spheres determines its homotopy type
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Why do the homology groups capture holes in a space better than the homotopy groups?
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The Wedge Sum of path connected topological spaces
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What characteristic class information comes from the 2-torsion of $H^*(BSO(n);Z)$?
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Killing the torsion in homotopy
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Intuition behind Thom class
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Is the space of diffeomorphisms homotopy equivalent to a CW-complex?
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Periodic mapping classes of the genus two orientable surface
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Can H-space multiplication always be straightened so that mult.-by-id. is the identity on the nose?
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Homotopy type of set of self homotopy-equivalences of a surface
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Two solid N_3 glued by its boundary
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Is geometric realization of the total singular complex of a space homotopy equivalent to the space?
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Deeper meanings of barycentric subdivision
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About the proof of Wajnryb’s finite presentation of Mod(S)
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How to prove the isotopy relative to a point exist?
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