Calculus on normed vector spaces (Q411311)

The book presents the basic results of differential calculus on normed spaces. It is intended to bridge the gap between elementary calculus textbooks and advanced texts. The prerequisites are calculus of several real variables and linear algebra, basic results on normed vector spaces and normed algebras being presented in the first chapter, and those concerning Hilbert spaces in Chapter 6. An appendix to the first chapter contains an analytic proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. The basic results on differential calculus are presented in Chapters 2. Differentiation (Fréchet and Gâteaux differentiability); 3. Mean value theorems (including a discussion on the integration of Banach space valued functions defined on intervals in \(\mathbb R\)); 4. Higher derivatives and differentials; 5. Taylor's theorem and applications (various expressions of the remainder, uniqueness of the development, applications to extrema). The differentiability properties of convex functions are studied in Chapter 7, while the fundamental implicit function, inverse function and rank theorems are proved in Chapter 8, with applications to constrained extrema. The open mapping theorem and Banach contraction principle are proved in two appendices to this chapter. The last three chapters of the book, 9. Vector fields; 10. The flow of a vector field; and 11. The calculus of variations: An introduction, are devoted to applications. The book is well written; the abstract notions and results are carefully motivated and explained by examples from the calculus in \(\mathbb R^n\), and the exercises spread throughout the text help the reader to better understand the results and their usefulness. The book can be recommended as a textbook for undergraduate or beginning graduate courses.