By
Michael Reed, Duke University, North Carolina
Barry Simon, Princeton University, New Jersey
Description
This book is the first of a multivolume series devoted to an exposition of functional analysis methods in modern mathematical physics.
It describes the fundamental principles of functional analysis and is essentially self-contained, although there are occasional references
to later volumes. We have included a few applications when we thought that they would provide motivation for the reader. Later volumes
describe various advanced topics in functional analysis and give numerous applications in classical physics, modern physics, and partial
differential equations.
Audience:
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying mathematics.
