A clear exposition, with exercises, of the basic ideas of algebraic topology. Suitable for a two-semester course at the beginning graduate level, it assumes a k

These notes are from a course given at the University of Chicago. No pretense of completeness is made. A great deal of additional material may be found in Bass'

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