With numerous examples and exercises, this book contains a detailed and rigorous introduction to the theory of block codes and moves on to more advanced topics like BCH codes, Goppa codes and Sudan's ...

Coding, information theory and compression provide a unified framework for quantifying, transmitting and summarising data. At its heart lies the concept of entropy, which measures the average ...

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Information‐theoretic bounds in source coding and guessing lie at the heart of quantifying uncertainty, compression efficiency and search complexity. In source coding, Shannon’s entropy and its ...

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