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Apr 17 at 19:28 comment added Jeremy @RyanBudney could you please explain more? Perhaps give an example or a sketch?
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Apr 17 at 18:31 comment added Ryan Budney You can get presentations by thinking about a $2$-skeleton for the manifold. For this you need a $2$-skeleton for $M$ and $N$ with a tubular neighbourhood of $S$ drilled out. Once you have that, it's just the VanKampen theorem.
Apr 17 at 18:02 comment added Moishe Kohan Also, read more carefully the linked Wikipedia article: the connected sum corresponds to the case when $S$ is a singleton.
Apr 17 at 17:49 answer added Sam Nead timeline score: 2
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