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Working problems is a crucial part of learning mathematics. No one can learn topology merely by poring over the definitions, theorems, and examples that are worked out in the text. One must work part of it out for oneself. To provide that opportunity is the purpose of the exercises.
James R. Munkres
Generalize the proof of Theorem 54.5 to show that the fundamental group of the torus is isomorphic to the group .
Since given by is a covering map, letting and , we have consisting of all integer points and the bijective ( is simply connected, Theorem 54.4) correspondence To show that is isomorphism, we consider two loops in such that their liftings in starting at end at some integer points and , and show that their product has a lifting starting at and ending at .