The Theory of Information and Coding
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The Theory of Information and Coding

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The Theory of Information and Coding

About this book

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 coding. Then, following the main results, the channel and source coding theorems, there is a study of specific coding schemes which can be used for channel and source coding. This volume can be used either for self-study, or for a graduate/undergraduate level course at university. It includes dozens of worked examples and several hundred problems for solution. The exposition will be easily comprehensible to readers with some prior knowledge of probability and linear algebra.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series-title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Editor’s statement
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface to the first edition
  10. Preface to the second edition
  11. Introduction
  12. Part one Information theory
  13. Part two Coding theory
  14. Appendix A Probability theory
  15. Appendix B Convex functions and Jensen’s inequality
  16. Appendix C Finite fields
  17. Appendix D Path enumeration in directed graphs
  18. References
  19. Index of theorems
  20. Index