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An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding

By Douglas Lind , Brian Marcus

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0521559006, 9780521559003, 0521551242, 9780521551243
LCC
QA614.8 .L56 1995
Open Library ID
OL1278799M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15611292 bytes)
Pages
514\514
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

Symbolic dynamics is a rapidly growing area of dynamical systems. Although it originated as a method to study general dynamical systems, it has found significant uses in coding for data storage and transmission as well as in linear algebra. This book is the first general textbook on symbolic dynamics and its applications to coding. Mathematical prerequisites are relatively modest (mainly linear algebra at the undergraduate level) especially for the first half of the book. Topics are carefully developed and motivated with many examples, and there are over 500 exercises to test the reader's understanding. The last chapter contains a survey of more advanced topics, and a comprehensive bibliography is included. This book will serve as an introduction to symbolic dynamics for advanced undergraduate students in mathematics, engineering, and computer science.

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