MA3202: Introduction to Coding Theory


  • Text.
    V. Pless , Introduction to the theory of error correcting codes, Wiley-interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982.
  • Course Description.
    MA 3202 - Introduction to Coding Theory Transmission via noisy channels, hamming distance, linear codes, the ISBN-code, encoding and decoding, finite fields, Reed-Solomon codes, deep space communication, the compact disk code, sphere packing bound, hamming codes, hamming decoding. Pre-Requisite(s): MA 2320 or MA 2321 or MA 2330
  • Syllabus.
    We start with covering Chapters 1 through 6. After the completeion of these chapters we will select some more advanced topics from the remaining chapters in the text.
  • Grading
    Your grade will be based on 7 assignements.
  • Homework.
    Start every written assignment at the top of a new page. Put your name at the beginning of each page and do not staple different problems together. I expect the problems to be well written in full English sentences with no gaps in detail or logic. Please be as elegant and as concise as possible. Cite all references.