Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems [Paperback]

Edward A. Lee (Author), Pravin Varaiya (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201745518 | ISBN-13: 978-0201745511 | Publication Date: August 22, 2002 | Edition: 1

This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic. An accessible introduction to the topic that assumes no background in circuits. Starts by presenting applications, which successfully motivates students learn the theory. An appropriate presentation for computer engineers and computer scientists students. Includes extensive web material for students and instructors with dynamic, illustrative applets for most topics. Incorporates lab material that ties the theory of the text into real-world applications of signals and systems. Based on many years of successful class-testing at the authors' university. This book is designed for students taking an introductory signals and systems course, as well as engineers looking for a fresh coverage of this important topic.

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From the Back Cover

This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic. An accessible introduction to the topic that assumes no background in circuits. Starts by presenting applications, which successfully motivates students learn the theory. An appropriate presentation for computer engineers and computer scientists students. Includes extensive web material for students and instructors with dynamic, illustrative applets for most topics. Incorporates lab material that ties the theory of the text into real-world applications of signals and systems. Based on many years of successful class-testing at the authors' university. This book is designed for students taking an introductory signals and systems course, as well as engineers looking for a fresh coverage of this important topic.

About the Author

Edward A. Lee is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley. His research interests center on design, modeling, and simulation of embedded, real-time computational systems. He is the Director of the Ptolemy project. He is the co-author of four books and numerous papers. His bachelor's degree (B.S.) is from Yale University (1979), his masters (S.M.) from MIT (1981), and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1986). From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the Advanced Data Communications Laboratory. He is a founder of BDTI, Inc., where he is currently a Senior Technical Advisor, and has consulted for a number of other companies. He is a fellow of the IEEE, was a NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineering Education.

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Pravin Varaiya is the James Fife Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Califonia PATH, a multi-university program of research in Intelligent Transportation Systems. From 1975 to 1992 he also was Professor of Economics at Berkeley. He has taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories during 1962-63. Dr. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He is a Fellow of IEEE. His areas of research are communication networks, transportation systems, and electric power systems. He has published more than 200 papers in technical journals. He is on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part C; Discrete Event Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications; Journal of Economic Dynamics &Control; Birkhauser series on Progress in Systems and Control Theory.

Product Details

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (August 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201745518
• ISBN-13: 978-0201745511
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Confusing, hard to use, full of errors, February 17, 2003

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Xia Nam (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems (Paperback)

This book is a terrible book. I found the book extremely frustrating to read and troublesome to use. When I first learned about signals and systems and used this book as a learning guide, I had a terrible time trying to understand the book. Some of the exercises even disagree with the books definition, and after taking an advanced systems and signals courses, I realized that the book is full of errors. For example, its definition of a memoryless system is completely wrong.

I've also tutored students who are using this book at UC Berkeley as the main class textbook. They have a difficult time understanding the book as well. If you want a good introduction to Signals and Systems, get "Signals and Systems" by Haykin and Van Veen instead of this book. That book does a much better job covering the topic and goes more in depth to cover advanced topics such as wavelets and z-transforms.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware! Very confusing.., April 8, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems (Paperback)

I totally agree with the previous reviewer. This book is very confusing and full of errors, although it tries to be an introductory book on the topic. Try books from Oppenheim, if you really want to master signals and systems.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars bad bad bad, December 10, 2005

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Berkeley Student (Berkeley, Ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems (Paperback)

When reading this book I felt a strange suspicion that the authors intent was to confuse the student by withholding greatly needed details needed to explain this topic. This book is written in such a convoluted way that seems to be more aimed at readers who buy "Be and Expert in 24 Hours!" books.

Even more, I had to use this book while taking the corresponding class taught by one of the authors. I does not help the student a bit to read the book, be confused and then go to lecture only to have the professor/author regurgitate the same material with same examples!

This is the first time I've ever written an online review, I felt compelled to steer people away from this book!