The objective of this chapter is to present some important elements of modern algebra and graphs that are pertinent to the understanding of the fundamental structural properties and constructions of some important classes of classical and modern error-correcting codes. The elements to be covered are groups, finite fields, polynomials, vector spaces, matrices, and graphs.
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