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an introduction to information communication and cryptography
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Coding and its uses -- Prefix-free codes -- Economical coding -- Data compression -- Noisy channels -- The problem of reliable communication -- The noisy coding theorems -- Linear codes -- Algebraic coding theory -- Coding natural languages -- The development of cryptography -- Cryptography in theory and practice -- The RSA cryptosystem -- Cryptography and calculation -- Elliptic curve cryptography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Springer undergraduate mathematics series