Product Description

Incorporating new problems and examples, the second edition of Linear Systems and Signals features MATLABRG material in each chapter and at the back of the book. It gives clear descriptions of linear systems and uses mathematics not only to prove axiomatic theory, but also to enhance physical and intuitive understanding.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172540 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 992 pages

About the Author

B. P. Lathi is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of Signal Processing and Linear Systems (OUP, 2000) and Modern Digital and Analog Communications Systems, 3/e (OUP, 1998).

Customer Reviews

One of the finest books I've seen
The author is really solid. He writes his text carefully. You won't find a higher quality, more coherent book on the subject when it comes to systems. The best part is the fist half, the first 6 chapters on system analysis.

The second half, signal analysis, is also quite good, but a bit harder to understand and follow than the first half. It is still far better than just about every other book out there... except for Peter Kraniauskas' book, "Transforms in Signals and Systems," which is the best choice for understanding signal analysis. I highly recommend getting both Lathi's book and Peter's book if you can afford it.

If you can only afford one book, you are a first time student in systems and signals, or you are interested mainly in circuits, filters, transfer functions, frequency and phase responses and so forth, go with Lathi's book.

If you can only afford one book, and you are interested in DSP with Fourier analysis, and discrete Fourier analysis, as well as spectrum analysis in general, go with Peter Kraniauskas' book.

In Summary:
If you are in a class called "Systems and Circuits" or something like that, get Lathi's book.

If you are in a class called "Discrete Time Signals and Systems" or "Frequency Analysis", go with Peter's book.

An excellent textbook
Lathi's book is an excellent, easy-to-read and easy-to-understand text on systems and signals. He spends a lot of time explaining in-depth examples, doing so without assuming the student has insight he or she probably does not-a common problem in other textbooks. Lathi goes out of his way to explain every nuance, greatly helping the learning processs

Unlike most other textbooks, this one is easy to read, without a glut of technical jargon, or pages and pages of mathematical formulae without text explaining where the author is heading. Lathi also includes a very comprehensive background section, polishing and reviewing the mathematical techniques necessary for solving the problems. It is handy to have this in one book, rather than require trigonometry, matrix algebra, and differential equations books at the standby for review.

One complaint is that this book does not have solutions to some of the homework problems, helping with additional study. This isn't quite the problem it is in other books since the examples are very thorough and insightful.

Simply put, not only is this probably the best textbook on systems and signals, it is one of the best textbooks I have ever used.

This is truly an excellent book.
"This is truly an excellent book...Lathi's writing is of high caliber...I believe the strongest point of the book is prof Lathi's ability to describe very difficult material in a very clear and simple way."