CONTENTS Preface Fundamental Concepts and Definitions State Equations Time Invariance, Linearity and Basis Functions Canonical Formulation Solutions to the Canonical Equations Controllability, Observability and Stability Statistical Systems-Signals in Noise Quantized Systems-Perturbation Theory and State Transitions Appendices Dirac Delta Function and the Unit Impulse --- Resolution of Continuous-Time Signals into Unit Impulses --- Discrete-Time State Equations --- Z Transforms --- Analogous Quantities of Continuous-Time and Discrete-Time Systems --- Stochastic Processes Bibliography Index