UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle

2/28/2016 -- High School II: Homotopy Theory (Sanath Devalapurkar)

A homotopy is a continuous deformation with bending, stretching, and squishing, but not tearing or gluing. We introduce the basic ideas of homotopy theory: homotopy equivalence and the fundamental group of a space.

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