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Limitations of Homotopy Groups in Topological Analysis

The questioner wonders why homotopy groups, which are defined by maps from spheres to spaces, are specifically used in topology. They suggest that using other classes of spaces could be useful, but notes that homotopy groups of certain spaces like the p-adics aren't useful due to their dissimilarity to spheres.

Mathematics & logic, Mathematics, Topology