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We will give a combinatorial description of the homotopy groups for the suspension ofK(π, 1) and wedges of 2-spheres. In particular, all of the homotopy groups of the 2-sphere are given as the centers of certain combinatorially described groups.

1. TJ'he first step toward connecting these two basic concepts of topology was taken by L. E. J. Brouwer in 1912 by demonstrating that two continuous mappings of a two-dimensional sphere into itself can be continuously deformed into each other if and only if they have the same degree (that is, if they are equivalent from the point of view of homology theory). After having generalized Brouwer's ...