Uses simple and efficient methods to develop results and design procedures, thus creating a non-exhaustive approach to presenting the material; Enables the reader to employ the results to carry out design. Thus, most results are discussed with an eye toward numerical computation; All design procedures in the text can be carried out using any software package that includes singular-value decomposition, and the solution of linear algebraic equations and the Lyapunov equation; All examples are developed for numerical computation and are illustrated using MATLAB, the most widely available software package.