Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms

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In mathematics: Developments in pure mathematics
Algebraic topology was axiomatized by Samuel Eilenberg, a Polish-born American mathematician and Bourbaki member, and the American mathematician Norman Steenrod. Saunders Mac Lane, also of the United States, and Eilenberg extended this axiomatic approach until many types of mathematical structures were presented in families, called categories. Hence there…
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