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Book Information:
Authors:
F. J. MacWilliams and
N. J. A. Sloane
Title:
The theory of error-correcting codes.
Additional book information:
North-Holland, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 1977, ix + 762 pp., $50.95.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp, Algebraic coding theory, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York-Toronto, Ont.-London, 1968. MR 0238597
Ian F. Blake and Ronald C. Mullin, The mathematical theory of coding, Academic Press [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers], New York-London, 1975. MR 0396055
P. J. Cameron and J. H. van Lint, Graph theory, coding theory and block designs, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, No. 19, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York-Melbourne, 1975. MR 0406822
J. H. Conway, Three lectures on exceptional groups, Finite simple groups (Proc. Instructional Conf., Oxford, 1969) Academic Press, London, 1971, pp. 215–247. MR 0338152
5. S. Lin, An introduction to error-correcting codes, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1970.
Jacobus H. van Lint, Coding theory, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 201, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1971. MR 0286555
W. Wesley Peterson and E. J. Weldon Jr., Error-correcting codes, 2nd ed., The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass.-London, 1972. MR 0347444
- 1.
- E. R. Berlekamp, Algebraic coding theory; McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968. MR 0238597
- 2.
- I. F. Blake and R. C. Mullin, The mathematical theory of coding, Academic Press, New York, 1975. MR 396055
- 3.
- P. J. Cameron and J. H. van Lint, Graph theory, coding theory, and block designs, London Math. Soc. Lecture Notes Series, No. 19, Cambridge Univ. Press, London, 1975. MR 406822
- 4.
- J. H. Conway, Three lectures on exceptional groups, in Finite Simple Groups, M. B. Powell and G. Higman (Eds.), Academic Press, New York, 1971, pp. 215-247. MR 338152
- 5.
- S. Lin, An introduction to error-correcting codes, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1970.
- 6.
- J. H. van Lint, Coding theory, Springer, New York, 1971. MR 286555
- 7.
- W. W. Peterson and E. J. Weldon, Jr., Error correcting codes, 2nd ed., M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972. MR 347444
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Vera Pless
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
84 (1978), 1356-1359
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14578-9
