Error-Correcting Codes and Finite Fields (Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series)

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Summary: Clear and intuitive
Review: Overall an excellent book on coding theory. Pretzel discusses fundamental codes for error correction such as hamming codes, BCH codes and Reed-Solomon codes. His presentation of finite fields is excellent. He does not simply slap equations down but leads you by way of examples and intuition and then applies them towards the construction of BCH and Reed-Solomon codes. This is an excellent book on coding theory.

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Summary: Very useful book for computer sciences.
Review: This book have a good introduction of basic coding theory. Very interesting the Z/2 fields and the polynomial arithmetic. This book is used at University of Salamanca, 5th of Ingenieria Informatica.