TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacWilliams, F. J. 
AU  - Sloane, N. J. A. 
TI  - The theory of error-correcting codes
T2  - North-Holland mathematical library
SN  - 9780444851932
U1  - 005.717 MAC/T 
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - North Holland
KW  - Error-correcting codes (Information theory)
N1  - Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Linear Codes. 
Chapter 2 Nonlinear Codes, Hadamard Matrices, Designs and the Golay Code. 
Chapter 3 An Introduction to BCH Codes and Finite Fields. 
Chapter 4 Finite Fields. 
Chapter 5 Dual Codes and Their Weight Distribution. 
Chapter 6 Codes, Designs and Perfect Codes. 
Chapter 7 Cyclic Codes. 
Chapter 8 Cyclic Codes: Idempotents and Mattson-Solomon Polynomials. 
Chapter 9 BCH Codes. 
Chapter 10 Reed-Solomon and Justesen Codes. 
Chapter 11 MDS Codes. 
Chapter 12 Alternant, Goppa and Other Generalized BCH Codes. 
Chapter 13 Reed-Muller Codes. 
Chapter 14 First-Order Reed-Muller Codes. 
Chapter 15 Second-Order Reed-Muller, Kerdock and Preparata Codes. 
Chapter 16 Quadratic-Residue Codes. 
Chapter 17 Bounds on the Size of a Code. 
Chapter 18 Methods for Combining Codes. 
Chapter 19 Self-dual Codes and Invariant Theory. 
Chapter 20 The Golay Codes. 
Chapter 21 Association Schemes. 

Appendix A. Tables of the Best Codes Known. 
Appendix B. Finite Geometries. 
Bibliography. 
Index

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