Download or read book Lectures on Finite Fields and Galois Rings written by Zhe-Xian Wan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook for graduate and upper level undergraduate students in mathematics, computer science, communication engineering and other fields. The explicit construction of finite fields and the computation in finite fields are emphasised. In particular, the construction of irreducible polynomials and the normal basis of finite fields are included. The essentials of Galois rings are also presented. This invaluable book has been written in a friendly style, so that lecturers can easily use it as a text and students can use it for self-study. A great number of exercises have been incorporated.