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From: troly@julia.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly)
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Subject: Re: coding theory text
Keywords: codes
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Date: 30 Apr 88 07:05:04 GMT
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In article <1832@mtuxo.UUCP> khreb@mtuxo.UUCP (01274-K.ROSEN) writes:
>I'd appreciate recommendations for a text on coding theory
>for an undergraduate junior/senior level course in a
>computer science dept.  I plan to cover the usual topics, 
>and perhaps cryptology and data compression, if time permits.
>A book with minimal algebraic prerequisites would be preferable
>since the students won't have had any courses in abstract algebra.

  Hamming has a very clearly written text that fits this. It covers
both coding and information theory (through Shannon's theorem). The
information theory part includes problems of data compression. I've
lent out my copy, but I think the title is _Coding and Information 
Theory_. I've looked at a number of texts and I think this is the
best one at the level you want. The only math pre-requisite is 
calculus. Everything else is developed as needed in the book.

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Bret Jolly (Bo'-ret Tro Ly)   Mathemagus          LA Platygaean Society
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