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Cobordism is a fundamental equivalence relation on the class of compact manifolds of the same dimension, set up using the concept of the boundary of a manifold.
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What motivated Thom to relate the cobordism groups with some homotopy groups?
I would like to know what motivated or led Thom to think that the (un)oriented cobordism groups would correspond with the homotopy groups of some structure (Thom spectum), or with the coefficient groups …