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Homological algebra is rather young. Its subject descends from two areas of mathematics studied at the previous century; these areas later became combinational topology and “modern algebra” (in the sense of van der Waerden) respectively. As the examples of main notions inherited form this early period, we can mention Betti numbers of a topological space and D. Hilberts’s “syzygy theorem” (1890).
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Kostrikin, A.I., Shafarevich, I.R. (1994). Introduction. In: Kostrikin, A.I., Shafarevich, I.R. (eds) Algebra V. Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57911-0_1
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