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In modern mathematics three notions are interconnected in such a way that each one essentially determines the other two: fundamental group, covering space, and properly discontinuous group. Historically, they appeared in the reverse order.
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Dieudonné, J. (2009). Fundamental Group and Covering Spaces. In: A History of Algebraic and Differential Topology, 1900 - 1960. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4907-4_15
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