Error Correcting Codes by Wesley Peterson: First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, Third Printing. Good. First Edition; Third Printing, July 1965 w/ corrections. 1961 (1965). The M.I.T. Press; Cambridge, MA. Hardcover. From the personal collection of a professor of Engineering & Computer Science. Underlining & markings, some pages heavy. Bright & clean yellow cloth boards. Light shelf & edge wear; softening & light fraying to top spine. Binding tight, solid & square. No jacket. 285 pp. 6.25x9.25" (Octavo). W. Wesley Peterson's foundational coding theory monograph in the M.I.T. Press Research Monographs series, w/ early book-length treatment of the BCH codes Peterson co-invented in 1960. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: First published in 1961 by The M.I.T. Press as part of the M.I.T. Press Research Monographs series, Error-Correcting Codes is widely recognized as the foundational textbook that established coding theory as an independent mathematical and technological discipline. W. Wesley Peterson lays out a comprehensive mathematical framework for detecting and correcting transmission errors in digital systems, establishing theoretical groundwork for modern computer memory, telecommunications, and digital storage architecture. The physical volume is presented in original publisher yellow clothbound hardcover, stamped with bold black spine lettering and the M.I.T. Press insignia. Issued without a dust jacket as part of the specialized research series, the copy represents the First Edition, Third Printing (July 1965), incorporating early author and publisher mathematical corrections. The text provides rigorous analytical treatments of linear block codes, cyclic codes, and Galois field arithmetic, with early book-length exposition of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes, which Peterson co-invented in 1960. W. Wesley Peterson was a distinguished mathematician and computer scientist whose research profoundly shaped modern digital infrastructure. Awarded the IEEE Hamming Medal and Piore Award, his work on cyclic redundancy checks (CRC) and algebraic coding theory is integral to contemporary computing hardware. An early M.I.T. Press printing serves as a physical artifact of mid-century scientific publishing and a key reference for historians of computing and information theorists. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 285 pages. Small owner's inscription, otherwise a nice copy.