Linear System Theory (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Whatever...
Review: Kailath's System Theory essentially rejected Chen's Linear System Theory for its undue emphasis on computation of the matrix exp. and other crimes. Kailath in turn beat realization theory to death, and is now rejected by Rugh. Well, this is but a better organized rewrite and update of Brockett's 1969 book. While that was easy to learn from, this one is not. In fact no current text on system theory is easy to learn from, save Luenberger's which is too watered down anyway. The student is as usuall left to his own devices. Good luck.

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Summary: Really terrible book, not suitable for text.
Review: This is really a terrible book on system theory. It can never point out the essencial points of the theory. Rather, the auther uses a lot of mathematics to make the book a nightmare. One can never easily get the idea. There is nothing but matrices. Well, those matrix techniques are not so difficult in the viewpoint of mathematics,except, complicated sometimes.

This one may be okay to look at when you are fairly familiar with the linear system theory but definitely it is not suitable for a textbook. Unfortunately, our school chose it as our text.