Features
- Unknown Binding: 703 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Education
- Edition: 1st Edition March 1, 1986
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0070099618
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0070099616
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Communication Systems (Hardcover)
I used an earlier version of this text in an undergraduate "introduction to analog communication systems" class. I enjoyed it because our curriculum was extremely mathematically rigorous and this book was fully consonant with Professor Sandler's mindset that the only way to fully understand communication systems is to track the signal spectra (or power spectra, as the case may be) through the various nodes in the system. Those who complain that the text is difficult are mathematical milksops who do not deserve EE degrees from the fine institutions that still cling to this arguably obsolescent work, while those who moan about variables not being redefined remind me of the clowns I met in "graduate" school at CWRU who were thrown for a loop because one text used G(j omega) for a transfer function while another used H(j2pi f)--as if the difference amounted to a half-hill of beans. (I admit to arguable obsolescence because Carlson focuses his attention on strict mathematical underpinnings, never mind the real-world systems that have taken command since 1970, when he authored the version of the text that I read.) I withhold my fifth star because, as others have pointed out, there are generous typographical errors here and there, and the book can be considered quite mathematically strenuous for a first course delivered to mathematically challenged "students." I suggest Haykin instead, which adopts a softer tone.
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