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Geometric intuition behind this chain homotopy
My question has to do with the chain homotopy that appears in Lee's Introduction to Topological Manifols and Rotman's Introduction to Algebraic Topology proofs that the inclusion
$$C_\bullet^\mathcal{...
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Role of determinant of the matrix corresponding to $i$-th Homology group.
I was thinking about the proof of the Lefschetz's Fixed point theorem and the ingeniuty of the Hopf's Trace formula, i.e. associating the trace of the matrix for deciding about the fixed points. Now ...
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What is (co)homology, and how does a beginner gain intuition about it?
This question comes along with a lot of associated sub-questions, most of which would probably be answered by a sufficiently good introductory text. So a perfectly acceptable answer to this question ...