Contents Ffe Notation and Symbols xiii List o.Acronyms 1 Introductipp 1 1.1 What his 1 1.2 Highlights his ook 3 1.3 Lotes and 9 8 Lin Alg ra 11 2.1 11 2.2 Ligenvalues and e nvectors 12 2.3 Mat rix version Brmuas· 13 2.4 ←bspaces ,。。。。。。。。。。。 14 2.5 ector ms and Matrix 6 ngular Value Decomposition. 18 2 emidefinits Matrices 3 . Lotes and leferences. 2.9 Problems 24 Linr Syst(品s 89 3.1 scriptions of Dy namical 。。 ntrollability 2 rvers and rver- ontrollers stems.·· izations for ansfer Matrices 3 6 stem Poles and Zeros Lotes and eferences·· 。。。。。。。。 4 3.8 Problems 42 viiContents Preface v Notation and Symbols xiii List of Acronyms xv Introduction What This Book Is About Highlights of This Book Notes and References Linear Algebra Linear Subspaces Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Matrix Inversion Formulas Invariant Subspaces Vector Norms and Matrix Norms Singular Value Decomposition Semidenite Matrices Notes and References Problems Linear Systems Descriptions of Linear Dynamical Systems Controllability and Observability Observers and ObserverBased Controllers Operations on Systems State Space Realizations for Transfer Matrices Multivariable System Poles and Zeros Notes and References Problems vii