From error-correcting codes through sphere packings to simple groups /

This book traces a remarkable path of mathematical connections through seemingly disparate topics. Frustrations with a 1940's electro-mechanical computer at a premier research laboratory begin this story. Subsequent mathematical methods of encoding messages to ensure correctness when transmitte...

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Main Author: Thompson, Thomas M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington] : Mathematical Association of America, ©1983.
Series:Carus mathematical monographs ; no. 21.
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