Linear Functional Analysis
by W W L Chen
Publisher: Macquarie University 2008
Number of pages: 129
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An introduction to some of the basic ideas in linear functional analysis: introduction to metric spaces; connectedness, completeness and compactness; normed vector spaces; inner product spaces; orthogonal expansions; linear functionals; introduction to linear transformations; linear transformations on Hilbert spaces; spectrum of a linear operator.
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