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A short and direct new proof is given to Wonham's theorem that a time invariant multi-input linear dynamical system is controllable only if its poles can arbitrarily be reassigned in a closed-loop system by means of a constant (state variable) feedback law. The construction provided in the proof is directly applicable as an effective algorithm for this pole assignment.
Heymann et al. (Sun,) studied this question.