This book is an attempt to present much of the necessary mathematical background needed to study the modern developments in linear and nonlinear system theory in a way in which will be more acceptable to the nonmathematician. The first six chapters concern those algebraic topics which have been instrumental in the establishment of linear system theory. These topics include groups, rings, modules and vector spaces. The last five chapters deal with those parts of analysis which lead to a geometric approach to nonlinear system theory that has been particularly successful in yielding important results since about 1970.
- ISBN10 0198563329
- ISBN13 9780198563327
- Publish Date 19 April 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 August 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 317
- Language English