Introduction to Coding Theory

by J.H. Van Lint

Book Overview

It is gratifying that this textbook is still sufficiently popular to warrant a third edition. I have used the opportunity to improve and enlarge the book. When the second edition was prepared, only two pages on algebraic geometry codes were added. These have now been removed and replaced by a relatively long chapter on this subject. Although it is still only an introduction, the chapter requires more mathematical background of the reader than the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540641335
• ISBN13: 9783540641339
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book from mathematical standpoint

Very good intro textbook. It gives short, detailed preps to various coding areas (linear, cyclic, convolutional). The biggest advantage this book has is that it does not throw at You tonnes of unnecessary info (like many other thick books do). That is, it assumes reader has some basic understanding of algebra and probability theory. Let's say, it gives good theoretical presentation such that the reader gets good theoretical understanding, it is not example-based.