Linear Funtional Analysis

Providing an introduction to the ideas and methods of linear functional analysis, this book shows how familiar and useful concepts from finite-dimensional linear algebra can be extended or generalized to infinite-dimensional spaces. In the initial chapters, the theory of infinite-dimensional normed spaces (in particular Hilbert spaces) is developed, while in later chapters the emphasis shifts to studying operators between such spaces. Functional analysis has applications to a vast range of areas of mathematics; the final chapter discusses the two particularly important areas of integral and differential equations. The reader is assumed to have a standard undergraduate knowledge of linear algebra, real analysis (including the theory of metric spaces), and Lebesgue integration. An introductory chapter summarizes the requisite material. Many exercises are included with solutions provided for each.