Codes: An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography

• Main Author: Biggs, N.L (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Series: Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Number theory.; Combinatorics.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Coding and Information Theory.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Number Theory.; Information and Communication, Circuits.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.

Information is an important feature of the modern world. Mathematical techniques underlie the devices that we use to handle it, for example, mobile phones, digital cameras, and personal computers. This book is an integrated introduction to the mathematics of coding, that is, replacing information ex...

Table of Contents:

• Coding and its uses
• Prefix free codes
• Economical coding
• Data compression
• Noisy channels
• The problem of reliable communication
• The noisy coding theorems
• Linear codes
• Algebraic coding theory
• Coding natural languages
• The development of cryptography
• Cryptography in theory and practice
• The RSA cryptosystem
• Cryptography and calculation
• Elliptic curve cryptography.