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Signal and Linear System Analysis

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I am a practicing engineer (in analog design), with an MSEE. Having taken numerous courses in linear analysis, circuit theory, and DSP in my college and graduate school study, I tried to use this textbook in helping my understanding in Matlab modeling of signals and systems.

I found the matlab examples in this book terrible. The code were poorly organized. (I personally write in C and Perl.) I also agree with one of the reviewers: There are a lot of typos in the textbook.

I would not recommend Amazon readers buying this one.

The text certainly has very comprehensive coverage of signal analysis for an introductory course, it certainly lacks the depth needed for an advanced course. And unfortunately the writing is so poor and the typos so numerous that the book cannot help but confuse and discourage those first learning a pretty complex field such as signal analysis. There were several mistakes in the Fourier and Laplace transform tables in the rear of the book which is simply abominable. The emphasis on computer examples and solutions is a nice feature and is implemented better than most other comparable texts. But I don't think that it's enough to redeem the numerous other flaws of this text. If I was to recommend an introductory text, a good one would be DSP First by McClellan which has lots of good computer examples and some nice exercises with real signals such as images and voice. A nice intermediate text is Digital Signal Processing by Proakis.

I used this book for an undergrad text and found it very wordy and hard to understand, although some of the examples are good. Now in graduate school, I find this book to be a great reference because of the depth of the mathematical principles presented. A lot of popular undergrad texts seem to gloss over the more complicated mathematics, but this book goes into the full details.

I've bought this book, and I am quite sure it doesn't worth.
I'd recommend "Linear Systems and Signals" - Lathi (much better choice)

I will be very clear and concise: This book is terrible and whoever buys it deserves a slap in the face. Your money should go to feeding starving children in Uganda and not some enginner who wrote a book without ANY sens of direction.

This is simply a terrible book--literally one of the worst textbooks I have ever had the horror of reading. The book's organization is non-existent, many examples are under-explained, the list goes on... The book isn't worth more than about $5, so if you need to buy this book, don't pay more than that--it's not worth it. That's all I can say.

This book has too many typos to be considered anywhere close to an authority on the subject of Linear Systems. In the first day of class, I received a errata sheet over 6 pages long. Also, the professors that teach this class barely use the book for their class, and I go to the Universtiy of Missouri-Rolla, the Univeristy that the author is still teaching at! I never open this book to supplement my studying of the subject, and at times, this book confuses me even more than I already was.

I'm an undergraduate electrical engineering student at the University of Kansas, and I can't stand this textbook. Consulting this text is nearly worthless. There are occasionally some decent examples, but the depth and amount of mathematical analysis presented before you even understand the concept is enormous. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone seeking help in the signals/systems area.

Signal and Linear System Analysis by Gordon E. Carlson Is the best book in this subject, at least to me, many examples down to the root, description of Matlab so you can appreciate what you are learning...this book is a must for any research and development engineer in need of, not only theory, but practical results. Thanks Dr. Carlson!.