Madhu Sudan's books and papers are practically required reading when you are working on a grad-level course on Coding theory. Just in case you think this is a

Madhu Sudan's books and papers are practically required reading when you are working on a grad-level course on Coding theory. Just in case you think this is a course on programming, its far from it. Coding Theory describes the math behind the algorithms used to transmit data from point A to B. If you are interested, jump to the Error Correcting Codes section for some fun times :)