Description:
"Very useful both for research and in the classroom. The main reason to use this book in a classroom is to prepare students for new research in the fields of finite geometries, curves in positive characteristic in a projective space, and curves over a finite field and their applications to coding theory. I think researchers will quote it for a long time."--Edoardo Ballico, University of Trento
"This book is a self-contained guide to the theory of algebraic curves over a finite field, one that leads readers to various recent results in this and related areas. Personally I was attracted by the rich examples explained in this book."--Masaaki Homma, Kanagawa University
Review Quotes: "This book is well-written and I greatly enjoyed reading it. The wealth of information and examples in this book give the reader a firm foundation and develop an intuition for the subject. The authors have used it as a textbook for a two-year course, and it would be a fine introduction to any advanced undergraduate or graduate student wanting to learn this subject."---Thomas Hagedorn, MAA Reviews