Linear Functional Analysis Paperback / softback
by Bryan Rynne, M.A. Youngson
Part of the Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series series
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This book provides an introduction to the ideas and methods of linear fu- tional analysis at a level appropriate to the ?nal year of an undergraduate course at a British university.
The prerequisites for reading it are a standard undergraduate knowledge of linear algebra and real analysis (including the t- ory of metric spaces).
Part of the development of functional analysis can be traced to attempts to ?nd a suitable framework in which to discuss di?erential and integral equations.
Often, the appropriate setting turned out to be a vector space of real or complex-valued functions de?ned on some set.
In general, such a v- tor space is in?nite-dimensional.
This leads to di?culties in that, although many of the elementary properties of ?nite-dimensional vector spaces hold in in?nite-dimensional vector spaces, many others do not.
For example, in general in?nite-dimensionalvectorspacesthereisnoframeworkinwhichtomakesense of analytic concepts such as convergence and continuity.
Nevertheless, on the spaces of most interest to us there is often a norm (which extends the idea of the length of a vector to a somewhat more abstract setting).
Since a norm on a vector space gives rise to a metric on the space, it is now possible to do analysis in the space.
As real or complex-valued functions are often called functionals, the term functional analysis came to be used for this topic.
We now brie?y outline the contents of the book.
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- Publication Date:21/12/2007
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, 6 Illustrations, black and white; X, 324 p. 6 illus.
- Publisher:Springer London Ltd
- Publication Date:21/12/2007
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- ISBN:9781848000049