In the first nine chapters we investigated affine monoid algebras with combinatorial, ring-theoretic, and K-theoretic methods. The class of objects will now be considerably extended. Historically, the subject drew inspirations from various fields, such as algebraic geometry, topology, representation theory –all of them relevant in Chapter 101
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Bruns, W., Gubeladze, J. (2009). Varieties. In: Polytopes, Rings, and K-Theory. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b105283_10
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