TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biggs,Norman
TI  - Codes : :  an introduction to information communication and cryptography / 
T2  - Springer undergraduate mathematics series
SN  - 1848002726
U1  - 003.54   22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London : 
PB  -  Springer, 
KW  - Coding theory
KW  - Cryptography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Coding and its uses -- 2. Prefix-free codes -- 3. Economical coding -- 4. Data compression -- 5. Noisy channels -- 6. The problem of reliable communication -- 7. The noisy coding theorems -- 8. Linear codes -- 9. Algebraic coding theory -- 10. Coding natural languages -- 11. The development of cryptography -- 12. Cryptography in theory and practice -- 13. The RSA cryptosystem -- 14. Cryptography and calculation -- 15. Elliptic curve cryptography
N2  - This book is an integrated introduction to the mathematics of coding, that is, replacing information expressed in symbols, such as a natural language or a sequence of bits, by another message using (possibly) different symbols. There are three main reasons for doing this: economy, reliability, and security, and each is covered in detail. Only a modest mathematical background is assumed, the mathematical theory being introduced at a level that enables the basic problems to be stated carefully, but without unnecessary abstraction
ER  -