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Within control and system theory the fundamentally important concept of controllability arose naturally during the early development of optimal control theory in the late 1950’s and was discovered independently by a number of mathematicians and engineers in the United States and the Soviet Union.
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LaSalle, J.P. (1986). The control of linear systems. Controllability.. In: The Stability and Control of Discrete Processes. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 62. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1076-4_15
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