Fundamentals of Functional Analysis

Authors: Farenick, Douglas
Tailored to novice mathematicians and non-specialists who wish to learn functional analysis with minimal prerequisites
Contains many interesting examples and challenging exercises
Covers a selection of topics that, while decades old, are of lasting value to both pure and applied mathematics
Presents an outstanding treatment of Banach spaces and operator theory, being written by a specialist in these areas

This book provides a unique path for graduate or advanced undergraduate students to begin studying the rich subject of functional analysis with fewer prerequisites than is normally required. The text begins with a self-contained and highly efficient introduction to topology and measure theory, which focuses on the essential notions required for the study of functional analysis, and which are often buried within full-length overviews of the subjects. This is particularly useful for those in applied mathematics, engineering, or physics who need to have a firm grasp of functional analysis, but not necessarily some of the more abstruse aspects of topology and measure theory normally encountered. The reader is assumed to only have knowledge of basic real analysis, complex analysis, and algebra.
The latter part of the text provides an outstanding treatment of Banach space theory and operator theory, covering topics not usually found together in other books on functional analysis. Written in a clear, concise manner, and equipped with a rich array of interesting and important exercises and examples, this book can be read for an independent study, used as a text for a two-semester course, or as a self-contained reference for the researcher.

Number of Pages
XIV, 451
Number of Illustrations and Tables
2 b/w illustrations
Topics
Functional Analysis
Measure and Integration
Operator Theory



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