I gave a seminar talk on Herlihy, Maurice; Rajsbaum, Sergio Algebraic topology and distributed computing—-a primer. Computer science today, 203—217, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci., 1000, Springer, Berlin, 1995. This paper doesn’t do it (but Rajsbaum’s MSRI talk did), but the result can be reformulated combinatorially, so that the algebraic topology […]