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Subtitle: an introduction to information communication and cryptography
By: Norman L. Biggs.
Series: Springer undergraduate mathematics series
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781848002722
Subjects: Coding theory; Cryptography
Description: "This book is an integrated introduction to the mathematics of coding, that is, replacing information expressed in symbols, such as a natural language or a sequence of bits, by another message using (possibly) different symbols. There are three main reasons for doing this: economy, reliability, and security, and each is covered in detail. Only a modest mathematical background is assumed, the mathematical theory being introduced at a level that enables the basic problems to be stated carefully, but without unnecessary abstraction."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.