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What is the intuition for higher homotopy groups not vanishing?

Homotopy groups of spheres correspond to framed submanifolds of Euclidean space through the Pontrjagin-Thom construction. For example, the Hopf map corresponds to a circle in $\mathbb{R}^3$ framed “w …
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Modern survey of unstable homotopy groups?

Behrens's monograph "The Goodwillie tower and the EHP sequence" reproduces some of the Toda calculations (out to the k~20 range as you cite) using a modern toolset, as named in the title. Depending o …
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