Essential Coding Theory
Venkatesan Guruswami, Atri Rudra and Madhu Sudan
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The plan is to put up a draft of the whole book sometime in 2022 (for real this time!).
Current Version
Below is a PDF of the book with the chapters that are now stable.
Draft of the book (January 31, 2022)
- (Major changes from last version: Added chapters on expander codes, linear time encodable codes, locally recoverable codes and complexity of coding problems.)
Warning:There are some dangling/missing links.
Previous Versions
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Acknowledgment
The material in this webpage is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under CAREER grant CCF-0844796. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).