Course in Algebraic Error-Correcting Codes

Simeon Ball is Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. He has been invited speaker at many international conferences, as well as serving on the scientific and organising committee for the Fq series of conferences. His research interests include classical and quantum error-correcting codes, incidence problems in real and finite geometries, graphs and semifields, and is particularly focused on applying geometrical and algebraic methods to these combinatorial objects. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Geometry, having previously served on the editorial board of Designs, Codes and Cryptography and Finite Fields and Their Applications.

“Merit of this book is its ability to bring together many topics, including current research, in a compact volume. Moreover, throughout the book, the author provides exercises that stimulate the interest of the reader. The style is clear and the topics are well presented, which makes the understanding of the subject approachable even for students coming from applied sciences. This is a remarkable textbook for a self-contained introduction to the theory of error-correcting codes and some of their modern topics.” (Matteo Bonini, zbMATH 1454.94142, 2021)

• Euclidean Plane.- Sphere.- Stereographic Projection and Inversions.- Hyperbolic Plane.- Lorentz-Minkowski Plane.- Geometry of Special Relativity.- Answers to Selected Exercises.- Index.