George William Whitehead (1978). Elements of homotopy theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Vol. 61 (3rd ed.). New York-Berlin: Springer-Verlag. pp. xxi+744. ISBN978-0-387-90336-1. MR 0516508. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
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^Adams, Frank (1974). Stable Homotopy and Generalized Homology. The University of Chicago Press. pp. 196–214.
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