🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks to all the people who responded to my request regarding good
Linear Systems Texts.  In my previous post I mentioned the Callier
and Desoer text.  Many people loved that text and some people hated
it, but everyone agreed that it goes into some heavy mathematics.
I agree.  The course I'm taking right now is an intro. course, and
we will not be going into nearly as much detail as Callier/Desoer 
do.  It's not a good first textbook on the subject, but I would 
love to read it after I complete this course.

Some other books mentioned by my prof. were "Linear Systems" by 
Thomas Kailath and the text by C.T. Chen.  Of all the texts that
people cited, Kailath's book recieved by far the most praise.  
Alot of respondents called it a classic, a must for anyone 
interested in control.  I will definitely check this one out.
C.T. Chen's book has a comprehensive state space treatment, which
is what I am mainly interested in, but it costs 95 big ones at our
bookstore.  I think I'll pass on this one.

The recent book by Wilson J. Rugh also received quite alot of
favourable reviews.  It was said that this book has many good
exercises, which makes it particularly attractive to me.

I think I'll be doing grad. work in discrete-event systems, but
I certainly would like to have as broad a knowledge of control
theory as possible;  so I will also check out Professor Sontag's
"Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite Dimensional 
Systems".  It is probably not the best book for what I am doing
right now, but I would like to peruse it someday when I have more
time.

Thanks again for helping me out.

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Ranjan Rai                             <rairan@ecf.toronto.edu> 
Engineering Science 9T3                <rr@odin.control.toronto.edu> 
University of Toronto