TY - BOOK AU - Garcia Arnaldo AU - Stichtenoth Henning TI - Topics in geometry, coding theory and cryptography SN - 978-1-4020-5333-7 U1 - 516 PY - 2007/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer-Verlag KW - Coding theory KW - Cryptography KW - Geometry N2 - This book presents survey articles on some of these new developments. Most of the material is directly related to the interaction between function fields and their various applications; in particular the structure and the number of rational places of func ER -