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Geometric Control Theory (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

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This book is a typical one that misleads readers. The way this book handles Hamiltonian reduction theory in the context of optimal control is very clumsy. Hamiltonian reduction theory has been well established since sixties. This book only reflects the author's stubbornness against learning the elementary reduction theory. Jurdjevic pretends to create a reduction theory without citing tons of relevant books and papers. What's worse is that he does it very poorly.

This is realy the best book on the topic. In some sense it is the only modern book. If you work on Control Theory and you want to lern some modern geometric tecniques you have to read it !!!

This outstanding monograph relates optimal control theory to the calculus of variations. The field has been sorely lacking a comprehensive and unifying text to bring together mathematics' most challenging and important legacies. Finally, Velimir Jurdjevic has closed that gap, in an impossibly brilliant yet gripping and thorough series of proofs that promise to define the burden of future research. Velimir Jurdjevic, what can't he do?

This is realy the best book on the topic. In some sense it is the only modern book. If you work on Control Theory and you want to lern some modern geometric tecniques you have to read it !!!