Saugata Basu, Richard Pollack, Marie-Françoise Roy. Computing the First Betti Number of a Semi-Algebraic Set. Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 8(1):97-136, 2008. [doi]
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title = {Computing the First Betti Number of a Semi-Algebraic Set},
author = {Saugata Basu and Richard Pollack and Marie-Françoise Roy},
year = {2008},
doi = {10.1007/s10208-007-9001-1},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10208-007-9001-1},
tags = { algebra},
researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/BasuPR08},
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journal = {Foundations of Computational Mathematics},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
pages = {97-136},
}