Codes and Algebraic Curves

Oliver Pretzel author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:8th Jan '98

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Codes and Algebraic Curves cover

The geometry of curves has fascinated mathematicians for 2500 years, and the theory has become highly abstract. Recently links have been made with the subject of error correction, leading to the creation of geometric Goppa codes, a new and important area of coding theory. This book is an updated and extended version of the last part of the successful book Error-Correcting Codes and Finite Fields. It provides an elementary introduction to Goppa codes, and includes many examples, calculations, and applications. The book is in two parts with an emphasis on motivation, and applications of the theory take precedence over proofs of theorems. The formal theory is, however, provided in the second part of the book, and several of the concepts and proofs have been simplified without sacrificing rigour.

'... the text is clear and well-written with many helpful examples... this book should prove useful to students trying to learn about geometric codes.' * Zentralblatt für Mathematik, 884 *

ISBN: 9780198500391

Dimensions: 242mm x 160mm x 16mm

Weight: 437g

208 pages