Functional analysis (Q5901501)

This volume is carefully composed and devoted to the fundamentals of functional analysis. The book consists of a preface, 8 chapters, a bibliography containing 10 references and the subject index. The first chapter is a quick review of material needed for understanding the rest of the book. In Chapter 2, normed spaces and linear mappings between them are introduced. The fundamental theorems of normed spaces, i.e., the Hahn-Banach, the Banach-Steinhaus, the open mapping and the closed graph theorems as well as some applications to optimization theory and Fourier series are presented in Chapters 3 and 4. Chapter 5 treats the weak and weak* topologies and presents an introduction to reflexive and separable spaces. Chapter 6 deals with \(L^p\) spaces and their duals. In Chapter 7, the author introduces Hilbert spaces and Hilbert adjoints and ends the book with a chapter sketching compact operators and their spectra. The book is useful for specialists and graduate students working in functional analysis and related topics.