Functional analysis (Q5906814)

This book is the second edition of the known capital textbook of functional analysis for mathematicians and physicists (see Zbl 0831.46002). The most part of the new edition is not changed (except Friedrichs extensions), only misprints and some vague places are corrected. However, in the new edition the important part of the book, namely Problems and Notes and Remarks in each chapter, is essentially enlarged and improved. In general, the structure of this textbook is defined by its 9 chapters: ``Normed Linear Spaces'', ``Functionals and Operators'', ``The Hahn-Banach Theorem and its Corollaries'', ``Basic Theorems for Operators in Banach Spaces'', ``Hilbert Space'', ``Spectral Theory of Compact Operators'', ``Spectral Theory of Selfadjoint Operators'', ``Locally Convex Spaces'', ``Banach Algebras'' and two appendices ``The Measure and Integral Theory'' and ``Metric and Topological Spaces''. However, this is only a formal characterization of this excellent book. One can see that the book has a good general idea, economic but clear text, careful choice of basic notions and results, simple and fine proofs, interesting problems which add and enlarge the basic part of the book essentially, interesting additional remarks. It is important that the author presents not only fundamental results of functional analysis but also discusses numerous little known (but useful and interesting) results, as well as those well-known but usually omitted in textbooks, and, finally, the most recent results (among them one can find Lyapunov's moment inequality, the Ascoli formula for the distance between a point and a hyperplane, Rellich's theorem on perturbation of a selfadjoint operator, the James space, Orlicz spaces, the Mazur-Ulam theorem, the Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem, the Hardy spaces, ergodic theorems of different types, Courant's minimax principle, Atkinson's theorem, results about the problem of Schauder basis in Banach spaces, the theorem of Pitt on compactness of linear operators between \(\ell_p\) and \(\ell_q\) in the case \(1\leq q<p<\infty\), the Choquet game, absolute-2-summable operators, the multiplications of Schwartz's distributions, and so on. In general, the book of Dirk Werner is one of the textbooks in functional analysis, which is useful not only for young mathematicians and physicists studying functional analysis but also for everyone who deals with this field of analysis, as a researcher so also as a teacher. It is a pity, that this book does exist only in German; undoubtedly, its translation into English and other languages of modern mathematics will meet the interests of the mathematical community.