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In mathematics, a Waldhausen category is a category C equipped with some additional data, which makes it possible to construct the K-theory spectrum of C using a so-called S-construction. It's named after Friedhelm Waldhausen, who introduced this notion to extend the methods of algebraic K-theory to categories not necessarily of algebraic origin, for example the category of topological spaces.

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