Overview
- By the author of the highly-praised text Discrete Mathematics
- Introduces the mathematical theories that find many applications in modern technology, bringing readers up-to-date with topics of great current interest, both in practice and in theory
- Clear and concise, with complete proofs of the results and a wealth of examples and exercises to test understanding
- Assumes only a modest mathematical background and provides careful explanations of the basic principles without recourse to jargon
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Part of the book series: Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series (SUMS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"This undergraduate textbook is a pleasure to read. … The author has a sense of humor, and he is not afraid to use it. The examples are very well chosen. … This very enjoyable book deserves many readers." (Miklós Bóna, The Mathematical Association of America, September, 2008)
"This is a clearly and carefully written introduction into information theory, coding theory and cryptography. … Due to the many motivating explanation, the numerous number of examples (for nearly every definition, concept and result) … and the many suggestions for further reading this book is, in my opinion, very suitable as well as for beginners in the field … . I can very much recommend this book to interested bachelor students as well as to lecturers on this subject." (Ralph-Hardo Schulz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1148, 2008)
"Coding here refers to the formal transcription of abstract information with the aim of achieving some combination of efficiency, reliability, and perhaps security. … Codes provides the student an initiation and shows the author’s great talent for mathematical exposition clearly propelled by big ideas. … will be valuable for academic libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced academic audiences, upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (D. V. Feldman, Choice, Vol. 46 (8), April, 2009)
"There are indeed substantial texts devoted to compression, coding systems of various sorts, and encryption. This text brings these three components together in a unified context and provides a basic, mathematically inclined introduction to each. … There is a reasonable amount of worked examples and exercises in the text. … This book could serve as a nice introduction to coding theory for computer science or electrical engineering students … and for mathematics students interested in computing and applied mathematics." (Jeffrey Putnam, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Codes: An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography
Authors: N.L. Biggs
Series Title: Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-273-9
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-272-2Published: 25 August 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84800-273-9Published: 16 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1615-2085
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4144
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 274
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Coding and Information Theory, Combinatorics, Communications Engineering, Networks, Number Theory, Information and Communication, Circuits, Data Structures and Information Theory