The Theory of Information and Coding

by Robert McEliece

This is a revised edition of McEliece's classic. It is a self-contained introduction to all basic results in the theory of information and coding (invented by Claude Shannon in 1948). This theory was developed to deal with the fundamental problem of communication, that of reproducing at one point, either exactly or approximately, a message selected at another point. There is a short and elementary overview introducing the reader to the concept of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521000955
• ISBN13: 9780521000956
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"