- Hardback - Number of Pages: 390 pages
- Dimensions: 160 x 241.3 x 27.9mm - 703.08g
- Publication date: 17 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
- Publication City/Country: Boca Raton, FL, United States
"Although designed as an undergraduate text with myriad exercises, lists of key topics, and chapter summaries, this excellent book explores enough advanced topics to hold equal value as a graduate text and professional reference. Mastering the contents of this book brings a complete understanding of the theory of cyclic codes, including their various applications and the Euclidean algorithm decoding of BCH-codes, and carries readers to the level of the most recent research." - Cryptologia "Bierbrauer makes two contributions to [the] literature with this book: he presents a method for teaching the basics of theory to undergraduates that includes a discussion of Reed-Solomon codes, and he manages to weave presentations of both the theory and applications of designs . The writing is readable and in fact enjoyable. Those who seek an appropriate undergraduate text in the subject, as well as those who desire a book that incorporates a healthy does of design theory in addition to the basics of coding, may well find this a rewarding text to use in their classrooms." - Mathematical Reviews, 2005f