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Induced fiber sequence and Eilenberg–MacLane space in Whitehead tower of $BO$

The takeaway is that the three classes $w_1$, $w_2$, and $\frac{1}{2}p_1$ are generators for their corresponding cohomology groups. This is the property one needs so that the homotopy fiber is the ...
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