It should qualify as a thorough first introduction to the topic, but i dont think all of the important examples have made it into the text. Textbooks in algebraic topology and homotopy theory. The articles in this volume present original research on a wide range of topics in modern topology. Spectral sequences in topology emily clader student geometry and topology seminar, university of michigan outline. A and the associated long exact sequences of homology and cohomology groups, one could consider an arbitrary increasing sequence of subspaces x 0.
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