Introduction to Coding and Information Theory
Author: Steven Roman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1996-11-26
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780387947044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is intended to introduce coding theory and information theory to undergraduate students of mathematics and computer science. It begins with a review of probablity theory as applied to finite sample spaces and a general introduction to the nature and types of codes. The two subsequent chapters discuss information theory: efficiency of codes, the entropy of information sources, and Shannon's Noiseless Coding Theorem. The remaining three chapters deal with coding theory: communication channels, decoding in the presence of errors, the general theory of linear codes, and such specific codes as Hamming codes, the simplex codes, and many others.