Signal and Linear System Analysis

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Summary: I would not recommend this book.
Review: I am a practicing engineer (in analog design), with an MSEE. Having taken numerous courses in linear analysis, circuit theory, and DSP in my college and graduate school study, I tried to use this textbook in helping my understanding in Matlab modeling of signals and systems.

I found the matlab examples in this book terrible. The code were poorly organized. (I personally write in C and Perl.) I also agree with one of the reviewers: There are a lot of typos in the textbook.

I would not recommend Amazon readers buying this one.

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Summary: Poorly done examples and poor book
Review: I'm an undergraduate electrical engineering student at the University of Kansas, and I can't stand this textbook. Consulting this text is nearly worthless. There are occasionally some decent examples, but the depth and amount of mathematical analysis presented before you even understand the concept is enormous. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone seeking help in the signals/systems area.

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Summary: Horrible Book
Review: I'm an undergraduate electrical engineering student at the University of Kansas, and I can't stand this textbook. Consulting this text is nearly worthless. There are occasionally some decent examples, but the depth and amount of mathematical analysis presented before you even understand the concept is enormous. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone seeking help in the signals/systems area.

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Summary: Outstanding, complete and essential for MATLAB and DSP.
Review: Signal and Linear System Analysis by Gordon E. Carlson Is the best book in this subject, at least to me, many examples down to the root, description of Matlab so you can appreciate what you are learning...this book is a must for any research and development engineer in need of, not only theory, but practical results. Thanks Dr. Carlson!.

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Summary: Terrible!! Waste of money
Review: The information in this book is irrelevant to the class. It contains various worthless information that means nothing to anybody who reads it. Consult the other reviews, this book is terrible. I go to UMR and am taught by the person that wrote this book. He is absent-minded and it's easy to see where this book got it's substance or lack thereof.

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Summary: This Book is Dumb.
Review: The information in this book is irrelevant to the class. It contains various worthless information that means nothing to anybody who reads it. Consult the other reviews, this book is terrible. I go to UMR and am taught by the person that wrote this book. He is absent-minded and it's easy to see where this book got it's substance or lack thereof.

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Summary: poorly organized, poorly edited
Review: The text certainly has very comprehensive coverage of signal analysis for an introductory course, it certainly lacks the depth needed for an advanced course. And unfortunately the writing is so poor and the typos so numerous that the book cannot help but confuse and discourage those first learning a pretty complex field such as signal analysis. There were several mistakes in the Fourier and Laplace transform tables in the rear of the book which is simply abominable. The emphasis on computer examples and solutions is a nice feature and is implemented better than most other comparable texts. But I don't think that it's enough to redeem the numerous other flaws of this text. If I was to recommend an introductory text, a good one would be DSP First by McClellan which has lots of good computer examples and some nice exercises with real signals such as images and voice. A nice intermediate text is Digital Signal Processing by Proakis.

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Summary: poorly organized, poorly edited
Review: The text certainly has very comprehensive coverage of signal analysis for an introductory course, it certainly lacks the depth needed for an advanced course. And unfortunately the writing is so poor and the typos so numerous that the book cannot help but confuse and discourage those first learning a pretty complex field such as signal analysis. There were several mistakes in the Fourier and Laplace transform tables in the rear of the book which is simply abominable. The emphasis on computer examples and solutions is a nice feature and is implemented better than most other comparable texts. But I don't think that it's enough to redeem the numerous other flaws of this text. If I was to recommend an introductory text, a good one would be DSP First by McClellan which has lots of good computer examples and some nice exercises with real signals such as images and voice. A nice intermediate text is Digital Signal Processing by Proakis.

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Summary: Poorly done examples and poor book
Review: This book has too many typos to be considered anywhere close to an authority on the subject of Linear Systems. In the first day of class, I received a errata sheet over 6 pages long. Also, the professors that teach this class barely use the book for their class, and I go to the Universtiy of Missouri-Rolla, the Univeristy that the author is still teaching at! I never open this book to supplement my studying of the subject, and at times, this book confuses me even more than I already was.