Seifert van Kampen Theorem

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, the Seifert van Kampen theorem of algebraic topology, sometimes just called van Kampen's theorem, expresses the structure of the fundamental group of a topological space X, in terms of the fundamental groups of two open, path-connected subspaces U and V that cover X. It can therefore be used for computations of the fundamental group of spaces that are constructed out of simpler ones.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, the Seifert-van Kampen theorem of algebraic topology, sometimes just called van Kampen's theorem, expresses the structure of the fundamental group of a topological space X, in terms of the fundamental groups of two open, path-connected subspaces U and V that cover X. It can therefore be used for computations of the fundamental group of spaces that are constructed out of simpler ones.