📚 System Theory

Books with system theory on their catalogue record, first published between 1948 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject system theory in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,291 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Cybernetics, or control and communication in the animal and the machine	Norbert Wiener	1948	40
	Principles of Systems	Jay Wright Forrester	1968	22
	Annals of Systems Research	B. van Rootselaar	1971	16
	Systemic sex therapy	Katherine M. Hertlein	2008	16
	The structure of appearance	Nelson Goodman	1951	13
	Design for a brain	William Ross Ashby	1952	12
	Thinking in systems	Donella H. Meadows	2008	11
	Synergetics	R. Buckminster Fuller	1975	10
	General Systems Theory	Lars Skyttner	1996	10
	Underwater Robots	Gianluca Antonelli	2003	9
	The Master Algorithm	Pedro Domingos	2015	9
	General system theory	Ludwig von Bertalanffy	1968	7
	Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and Matlab	Edward W. Kamen	2000	7
	The systems view of the world	Laszlo, Ervin	1972	6
	Managing the business	Garry L. McDaniel	1999	6
	Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie	Dirk Baecker	2005	6
	Thinking through systems thinking	Ion Georgiou	2006	6
	Theory of Applied Robotics	Reza N. Jazar	2007	6
	Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks	Alain Barrat	2008	6
	Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy	John Mingers	2014	6
	Systems, Self-Organisation and Information	Pereira Junior Alfredo	2018	6
	Theory of bilinear dynamical systems	Antonio Ruberti	1972	5
	Synergetics 2	R. Buckminster Fuller	1979	5
	Control Problems of Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems	Yasumichi Hasegawa	2013	5
	General Systems Theory	Barbara G. Hanson	2014	5
	Dynamics of Discrete Populations and Series of Events	Keith Iain Hopcraft	2014	5
	Systems, Cybernetics, Control, and Automation	Spyros G. Tzafestas	2017	5
	General system theory	Ludwig von Bertalanffy	1968	4
	Study notes in system dynamics	Michael R. Goodman	1974	4
	La systémique	Daniel Durand	1979	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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