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Before I get down to the business of exposition, I’d like to offer a little motivation. I want to show that there are one or two places in homotopy theory where we strongly suspect that there is something systematic going on, but where we are not yet sure what the system is.

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Adams, J.F. (1966). Introduction. In: Stable Homotopy Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-15905-7_1

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