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In this chapter we will state some of the most important results on finite spaces which are previous to our work. These results can be summarized by the following three items: 1. The correspondence between finite topological spaces and finite partially ordered sets, first considered by Alexandroff in [1] in 1937. The combinatorial description of homotopy types of finite spaces, discovered by Stong in his beautiful article [76] of 1966. 3. The connection between finite spaces and polyhedra, found by McCord [55] also in 1966.
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Barmak, J.A. (2011). Preliminaries. In: Algebraic Topology of Finite Topological Spaces and Applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22003-6_1
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