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What does actually being a CW-complex provide in algebraic topology?

Here is another interesting class to throw in the mix in between CW-complexes and general spaces. They are defined exactly like CW-complexes, by inductively attaching cells, except that you are allow …
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Is any CW complex with only finitely many nonzero homology groups homotopic to a finite dime...

As requested I am writing this as an answer. No there are spaces with vanished homology which are not homotopy equivalent to finite CW-complexes. For example if $G$ is an acyclic group, then the cl …
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