Title: Introduction to Coding Theory
Author: Jurgen Bierbrauer
Format: PDF
Hardcover: 538 pages
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 2 edition (December 7, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1482299809
This book is designed to be usable as a textbook for an undergraduate course or for an advanced graduate course in coding theory as well as a reference for researchers in discrete mathematics, engineering and theoretical computer science. This second edition has three parts: an elementary introduction to coding, theory and applications of codes, and algebraic curves. The latter part presents a brief introduction to the theory of algebraic curves and its most important applications to coding theory.