Finite Fields for Computer Scientists and Engineers

by Robert J. McEliece

Book Overview

This book developed from a course on finite fields I gave at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Spring semester of 1979. The course was taught at the request of an exceptional group of graduate students (includ- ing Anselm Blumer, Fred Garber, Evaggelos Geraniotis, Jim Lehnert, Wayne Stark, and Mark Wallace) who had just taken a course on coding theory from me. The theory of finite fields is the mathematical foundation of algebraic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898381916
• ISBN13: 9780898381917
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"