As an engineering student who is trying to learn and understand the concepts in this book, I have found it nearly impossible to get clear and concise explanations of the concepts covered in this book. Many of the examples are incomplete. They take short cuts and don't explain why they did what they did. This book makes WAY too many assumptions that you just magically already knew what they were talking about. For each chapter, I've had to go through and spend hours deciphering what in the world they were trying to say. There is little consistency in notation. The notation chosen doesn't always coincide with standard notation. They rarely clearly define the notation. Many of the figures are mediocre at best and poorly labeled.
The concepts in this book are very important, so they need to be presented in a simple, easy to understand way. The concepts are not necessarily difficult, but they are difficult to learn from this book's explanations. From what I've heard, the next edition isn't much better if any. The editors need to work their way through this book and fill in the gaps, making sure everything is clearly illustrated, labeled, and explained.
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