Foundations of Coding: Theory and Applications of Error-Correcting Codes with an Introduction to Cryptography and Information TheoryISBN: 978-0-471-62187-4
Hardcover
352 pages
September 1991
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Although devoted to constructions of good codes for error control, secrecy or data compression, the emphasis is on the first direction. Introduces a number of important classes of error-detecting and error-correcting codes as well as their decoding methods. Background material on modern algebra is presented where required. The role of error-correcting codes in modern cryptography is treated as are data compression and other topics related to information theory. The definition-theorem proof style used in mathematics texts is employed through the book but formalism is avoided wherever possible.