Coding Theory
Concerned with successfully transmitting data through a noisy channel, coding theory can be applied to electronic engineering and communications. Based on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this text provides a completely modern and accessible course on the subject. It includes sections on linear programming and decoding methods essential for contemporary mathematics. Numerous examples and exercises make the volume ideal for students and instructors.
- Clear, accessible and designed with the student in mind
- Includes essential modern material that other books cover badly
- Includes a wealth of examples and exercises
Reviews & endorsements
"This book is well written and highly recommended for students and professionals in engineering, computer science, mathematics and related fields." Mathematical Reviews
Product details
March 2004Paperback
9780521529235
236 pages
244 × 173 × 13 mm
0.54kg
50 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Error detection, correction and decoding
- 3. Finite fields
- 4. Linear codes
- 5. Bounds in coding theory
- 6. Constructions of linear codes
- 7. Cyclic codes
- 8. Some special cyclic codes
- 9. Goppa codes.