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Here is a non-rhetorical answer to your rhetorical question: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/ http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/ See how far y

• sanxiyn 12y ago
  You actually can get pretty far, Huffman coding for example. If throwing a tome is your style, I suggest going through http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ or http://www.decision-procedures.org/ http://www.decision-procedures.org/ -- you can go through entire books without calculus.
  • lambdaphage 12y ago
    I thought the claim was that you don't need calculus for coding theory, not that there exist branches of advanced mathematics where calculus isn't necessary. So it's germane to produce a book on coding theory and show that the mathematics of the continuum begins literally on page 2.