Download or read book A First Course in Functional Analysis written by Orr Moshe Shalit and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a textbook, A First Course in Functional Analysis is an introduction to basic functional analysis and operator theory, with an emphasis on Hilbert space methods. The aim of this book is to introduce the basic notions of functional analysis and operator theory without requiring the student to have taken a course in measure theory as a prerequisite. It is written and structured the way a course would be designed, with an emphasis on clarity and logical development alongside real applications in analysis. The background required for a student taking this course is minimal; basic linear algebra, calculus up to Riemann integration, and some acquaintance with topological and metric spaces.