Book Reviews 387 reasonable to expect that one book could cover it completely. This book contains many topics in the theory of discrete systems but fails to connect the theories presented to the physical systems from which the problems come, omits several parts of the theory that seem to be important, and also shows less care in production than one would like to see. With reference to the literature for background material and to other books for motivation and related material, the reader will find many useful results on discrete systems theory collected here.
About the reviewer
Gene F. Franklin has been at Stanford University since 1957, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. He received his degrees at Georgia Tech, M.I.T. and Columbia University, completing the doctorate in 1955. His research and teaching interests are in the area of digital control, with current emphasis on model order reduction, adaptive control, including algorithms for implementation on micro-processors, and development of computer-aided design tools for control. He is co-author of three books on control, including Digital Control oJ Dynamic Systems (Addison-Wesley. 19801 with J. D. Powell. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Vice-president for Technical Affairs of the IEEE Control Society. In 1985, he received the Education Award of the American Automatic Control Council.