What is the fundamental group of the special orthogonal group so(n) s o (n), n> 2 n> 2? The answer usually given is: But i would like to see a proof of that and an …

This is … I've found lots of different proofs that so(n) is path connected, but i'm trying to understand one i found on stillwell's book naive lie theory. It's fairly informal and talks about paths in a very