In this age of technology where messages are transmitted in sequences of
0's and 1's through space, errors can occur due to noisy channels. Thus,
self-correcting code is vital to eradicate these errors when the number
of errors is small. It is widely used in industry for a variety of
applications including e-mail, telephone, and remote sensing (for
example, photographs of Mars).
An expert in algebra and algebraic geometry, Tzuong-Tsieng Moh covers
many essential aspects of algebraic coding theory in this book, such as
elementary algebraic coding theories, the mathematical theory of vector
spaces and linear algebras behind them, various rings and associated
coding theories, a fast decoding method, useful parts of algebraic
geometry and geometric coding theories.
This book is accessible to advanced undergraduate students, graduate
students, coding theorists and algebraic geometers.