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Functional Analysis

ISBN: 978-1-118-62674-0

August 2014

608 pages

Description
  • Includes sections on the spectral resolution and spectral representation of self adjoint operators, invariant subspaces, strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups, the index of operators, the trace formula of Lidskii, the Fredholm determinant, and more.
  • Assumes prior knowledge of Naive set theory, linear algebra, point set topology, basic complex variable, and real variables.
  • Includes an appendix on the Riesz representation theorem.
About the Author

Peter D. Lax is a Series Advisor for the Wiley Interscience Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics. He is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute, the director of the Mathematics and computing Laboratory, and was director of the Institute from 1971 to 1980.