Essential Coding Theory

To spare others searching the man, you can download the pdfs to the current directory<p><pre><code> wget -r -np -nd -l 1 -A pdf http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cse.buffalo.edu&#x2F;\~atri&#x2F;courses&#x2F;coding-theory&#x2F;book&#x2F; </code></pre> and combine them<p><pre><code> pdftk $(ls *.pdf | sort -V) cat output essential-coding-theory.pdf </code></pre> thus hastening the first draft.<p>BTW would the resulting essential-coding-theory.pdf be a derivative work under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0?

Clearly not a book for the ordinary reader. For me the transition from Sec.1.1 to Sec.1.2 was akin to starting with a quiet walk in the park, and then suddenly finding oneself clinging to a rock face as a cloud of chalk dust drifts down from the climbers up ahead....

Looks good! Seems to have a strong treatment of algebraic codes and coding bounds.<p>For those interested in reading, you&#x27;ll probably want some background in linear algebra. All the necessary definitions are included in the text, but it doesn&#x27;t go deep enough to make the reader &#x27;comfortable&#x27; with linear algebra. Some background in abstract algebra will help too, but isn&#x27;t as necessary.

What applications does this have? What language is this anyway?