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Of particular interest are the homotopic paths starting and ending at a single point. The class of all such paths homotopic to each other in a given geometric region is called a homotopy class. The set of all such classes can be given an algebraic structure called a group, the fundamental group of the region, whose structure varies according to the type of region. In a region with no holes, all...
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