Introduction to Banach Spaces and Algebras, 9780199206537
Hardcover
A timely graduate level text in an active field covering functional analysis, with an emphasis on Banach algebras.

Introduction to Banach Spaces and Algebras

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    380 pages

  • Release Date

    19 November 2010

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Summary

Banach spaces and algebras are a key topic of pure mathematics. Graham Allan’s careful and detailed introductory account will prove essential reading for anyone wishing to specialise in functional analysis and is aimed at final year undergraduates or masters level students. Based on the author’s lectures to fourth year students at Cambridge University, the book assumes knowledge typical of first degrees in mathematics, including metric spaces, analytic topology, andcomplex analysis. However, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199206537
ISBN-10:0199206538
Series:Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Author:H. Garth Dales, Graham Allan
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:380
Release Date:19 November 2010
Weight:708g
Dimensions:240mm x 163mm x 27mm
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This well-crafted and scholarly book …leaves nothing to be desired: this is a fine way to get into this beautiful in a subject and will serve to reel in a huge number of futureews devotees.

This well-crafted and scholarly book …leaves nothing to be desired: this is a fine way to get into this beautiful in a subject and will serve to reel in a huge number of futureews devotees. * Michael Berg, MAA Reviews *

About The Author

H. Garth Dales

Graham Allan was a student of mathematics at Cambridge University, England, and obtained his PhD there in 1964. After periods as a Fellow at Cambridge, as a lecturer at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and as Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds, Graham returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in mathematics in 1978, and he became a Reader in Functional Analysis in 1980. Graham was a Fellow of Churchill College from 1978, Director of Studiesin Mathematics from 1985, and Vice-Master of the College 1990-93.

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