Concessions: 1) I have enjoyed nearly every book on this subject. 2) My math background is much broader than the average engineering undergraduate.


This book is for real engineers , not for amateurs...   October 12, 1999
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

I read this book in my undergraduate course , and it is this book what makes me distinguished from normal students who still try to understand many things in communications theory. I suggest them to study signals & systems , probability and advanced maths first , then they may try to go deep in communications. Communications theory is not a childs game , so you have to be on the level to understand what Haykin says in that book !!


Very good book for serious readers (not for hobbists)   August 3, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I think this is is one of the best introductory books on this topic and it has been used at tons of universities around the world. I felt so surprised that the previous comments were so bad, I think it might be because the previous readers are hobbists who want to pick up a book which let them read like "communication for dummies", or "teach yourself communications in 24 hours". This book is for those who want to know the principle behind all those communication devices and the reader MUST have knowledge about maths such like Fourier Transform.


one of the best...   January 24, 2006
Daniel H. Geng
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

having spent 2 quarters of preparation in learning "signal and systems", we moved to this book for the 3rd quarter and got through 40% of it in 10 weeks at Caltech. It's one of the harder text books to read, only because it contains so much information in every section of every chapter. Following through all the formulas and derivation isn't always trivial, but when if you manage to do so, everything becomes crystal clear.