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R. Thom [Th54] and L.S. Pontrjagin introduced the concept of cobordism, in which equivalence classes of manifolds are provided with a ring structure.
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Hirzebruch, F., Berger, T., Jung, R. (1994). Background. In: Manifolds and Modular Forms. Aspects of Mathematics, vol 20. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-10726-2_1
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