
This book provides an introduction to measure theory and functional analysis suitable for a beginning graduate course, and is based on notes the author had developed over several years of teaching such a course. It is unique in placing special emphasis on the separable setting, which allows for a simultaneously more detailed and more elementary exposition, and for its rapid progression into advanced topics in the spectral theory of families of self-adjoint operators. The author's notion of measurable Hilbert bundles is used to give the spectral theorem a particularly elegant formulation not to be found in other textbooks on the subject.
Sample Chapter(s)
Topological Spaces (233 KB)
Contents:
- Topological Spaces
- Measure and Integration
- Banach Spaces
- Dual Banach Spaces
- Spectral Theory
Readership: Graduates students in mathematics (pure and applied) in their first or second year, graduate students in physics or engineering, and economics.
“This book would serve admirably well for a one–semester course on the subject. In view of its conciseness and brevity, it serves as a useful reference for graduate students studying for qualifying exams.”
Mathematical Association of America
“It is unique in placing special emphasis on the separable setting, which allows for a simultaneously more detailed and more elementary exposition, and for its rapid progression into advanced topics in the spectral theory of families.”
Zentralblatt MATH
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MathSciNet
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