Calculus of Fractions and Homotopy Theory

by Michel Zisman and Peter Gabriel

Book Overview

The main purpose of the present work is to present to the reader a particularly nice category for the study of homotopy, namely the homo- topic category (IV). This category is, in fact, - according to Chapter VII and a well-known theorem of J. H. C. WHITEHEAD - equivalent to the category of CW-complexes modulo homotopy, i.e. the category whose objects are spaces of the homotopy type of a CW-complex and whose morphisms are homotopy classes of continuous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642858465
• ISBN13: 9783642858468
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"