Download or read book Polytopes, Rings, and K-Theory written by Winfried Bruns and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines interactions of polyhedral discrete geometry and algebra. What makes this book unique is the presentation of several central results in all three areas of the exposition - from discrete geometry, to commutative algebra, and K-theory.