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.

About the Author

Jiri Adamek is the author of Foundations of Coding: Theory and Applications of Error-Correcting Codes with an Introduction to Cryptography and Information Theory, published by Wiley.

Book Information
ISBN 9780471621874
Author Jiri Adamek
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Wiley-Interscience
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 624g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 161mm * 23mm