Coding. (Almost) everything about data encryption, compression and error correcting (Q2716997)

This book deals with 3 important chapters of coding theory: error-correcting codes, cryptography and data compression. The main differences between the first edition, which appeared in 1994 (see Zbl 0888.94002), and the present second edition are the following:NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFirstly, some parts (in particular many examples and applications) are updated, which has become necessary because of the great progress in coding theory and its applications to computer science in the last decade.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINESecondly, some new topics are included in the second edition, in particular some theoretical results on the performance of error-correcting codes and a chapter on data compression.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book is written in a very good style and can be recommended to students and teachers of mathematics and computer science as well as to users in industry and economics.