Representation and Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems, 2nd Edition

It is perhaps difficult to recall how new the treatment of the first 19921993 two-volume edition [2] was in using the modern functional analytically oriented PDE theory of evolution equations (as well as a corresponding semigroup treatment of delay equations) to present a treatment of topics that had only recently obtained a satisfactory formulation. The present work (hereafter, BDDM2) has now streamlined and smoothed this treatment into a coherent one-volume book. It is extremely impressive that this felicitous combination of authors has been able to develop such a coherent structure. As before, the book is neither an exhaustive monograph nor a text, but rather is intended to show how a particular approach can be used effectively to treat a variety of problems.