文档介绍：Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes
Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes is an in-depth introduction to coding theory from
both an engineering and mathematical viewpoint. As well as covering classical topics, much
coverage is included of recent techniques that until now could only be found in special-
ist journals and book publications. Numerous exercises and examples and an accessible
writing style make this a lucid and effective introduction to coding theory for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and engineers, whether approaching the
subject from a mathematical, engineering, puter science background.
Professor W. Cary Huffman graduated with a PhDin mathematics from the California Institute
of Technology in 1974. He taught at Dartmouth College and Union College until he joined
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola in 1978, serving as chair of the
department from 1986 through 1992. He is an author of approximately 40 research papers
in finite group theory, combinatorics, and coding theory, which have appeared in journals
such as the Journal of Algebra, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and the Journal
binatorial Theory.
Professor Vera Pless wasanundergraduate at the University of Chicago and received her
PhDfrom Northwestern in 1957. After ten years at the Air Force Cambridge Research
Laboratory, she spent a few years at MIT’s project MAC. She joined the University of
Illinois-Chicago’s Department of Mathematics, Statistics, puter Science as a full
professor in 1975 and has been there ever since. She is a University of Illinois Scholar and
has published over 100 papers.
Fundamentals of
Error-Correcting Codes
W. Cary Huffman
Loyola University of Chicago
and
Vera Pless
University of Illinois at Chicago
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