Title: Codes
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Coding theory, Cryptography, Combinatorics, Data structures (Computer science), Mathematics, Number theory, Telecommunication
LC classification: QA268 .B496 2008