Randy Skretvedt
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Radio producer, writer, and scholar of 20th-century show business. Author of Laurel & Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies.
Primary Contributions (1)
Radio, a form of mass media and sound communication by radio waves, usually through the transmission of music, news, and other types of programs from single broadcast stations to multitudes of individual listeners equipped with radio receivers. From its birth early in the 20th century, broadcast…
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Publications (1)
Laurel and Hardy The Magic Behind the Movies (1994)
This introductory book, which grew out of lectures given at the Mathematics Institute of Wurzburg University, proposes a combination of coding theory and number theory. Chapter one gives a standard course of linear codes. The next two chapters treat a link between coding theory and number theory. Chapter four is a systematic study of algebraic-geometric codes and in Chapter five a connection between binary linear codes and theta functions is discussed. The book is designed to teach undergraduates...
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