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Linear Systems by Thomas Kailath is widely regarded as one of the most rigorous and comprehensive texts on system theory. It serves as a bridge between classical control theory (frequency domain) and modern control theory (state-space methods). The book is renowned for its mathematical elegance, unifying different approaches to linear systems, and its focus on geometric and algebraic structures. thomas kailath linear systems pdf