An integrated treatment of linear continuous-time control theory; Input/output representations and state space realizations; Canonical forms, Transformations: Nerode equivalence, Geometric interpretations; Matrix Fraction Descriptions: observability, controllability matrices, minimal realizations, polynomial matrices; Concepts and structural properties: stability/stabilizability, controllability/ reachability, and observability/detectability; State feedback and compensator design; full and reduced order state-observer; Output feedback; Time-variant state equations: controllability and observability Gramians.