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In the last chapter, we discussed homotopies of maps between [0, 1] and a topological space X. We can generalize this to maps between two arbitrary topological spaces X and Y. We say that two maps \(f,g:X\rightarrow Y\) are homotopic if we can continuously deform one into the other.
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Bray, C., Butscher, A., Rubinstein-Salzedo, S. (2021). Computing the Fundamental Group. In: Algebraic Topology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70608-1_9
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