Finite fields and applications

SciTech Book News, March, 2008

Finite fields and applications.

Mullen, Gary L. and Carl Mummert.

American Mathematical Society

2007

175 pages

$35.00

Paperback

Student mathematical library; v.41

QA247

This work offers a brief and accessible introduction to the theory of finite fields and applications in combinatorics, algebraic coding, and cryptography. An appendix provides a brief review of basic algebraic concepts. Chapter exercises and hints are included. The book is accessible to undergraduate students with two years of standard college mathematics, and is suitable as a text for an upper division undergraduate course. The authors are affiliated with Pennsylvania State University. This book is part of a collection published jointly by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters (MASS) program as part of the Student Mathematical Library series. The books in the collection are based on lecture notes for advanced undergraduate topics courses taught at the MASS and/or Pennsylvania State University's summer program, Research Experiences for Undergraduates.

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