π₁(S¹) ≅ ℤ lacks motivation
Although Napkin spends considerable time preparing to prove $\pi_1(S^1) \cong \mathbb{Z}$, it doesn’t present any applications of this result. How about borrowing these two examples from [[Ha02]](https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/AT.pdf) and incorporating them somewhere in the book?
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