A First Course in Functional Analysis making this text applicable to

making this text applicable to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses

Unabridged republication of the revised and augmented edition published by Academic Press

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A First Course in Functional Analysis making this text applicable toThis introduction to functional analysis is based on the lecture notes of Martin Davis, a distinguished professor of mathematics. The treatment demonstrates the essential unity of mathematics without assuming more background than can be expected of advanced undergraduates and graduate students majoring in mathematics. A self contained exposition of Gelfand's proof of Wiener's theorem, this volume explores set theoretic preliminaries, normed linear