num_pages: 340
description: This book is intended to introduce coding theory and information theory to undergraduate students of mathematics and computer science. It begins with a review of probablity theory as applied to finite sample spaces and a general introduction to the nature and types of codes. The two subsequent chapters discuss information efficiency of codes, the entropy of information sources, and Shannon's Noiseless Coding Theorem. The remaining three chapters deal with coding communication channels, decoding in the presence of errors, the general theory of linear codes, and such specific codes as Hamming codes, the simplex codes, and many others.
language: English
title: Introduction to Coding and Information Theory
titlecomplete: Introduction to Coding and Information Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
genres: Mathematics, Computer Science
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Springer