While the physical copies may yellow and the PDFs may be viewed on tablets rather than paper, the intellectual lineage of the book is unbroken. Every time an engineer places a pole in a stable region of the s-plane to create a filter, or checks a transfer function for realizability, they are walking the path that Van Valkenburg laid out. It remains an essential read for anyone seeking to master the art and science of circuit design.

A polynomial $P(s)$ is a Hurwitz Polynomial if all its roots (poles) lie in the left half of the s-plane (LHP).

Book overview This book presents a lucid treatment of topics essential to an understanding of modern methods of network synthesis. Amazon.com Van Valkenburg M e Introduction To Modern Network Synthesis