A timely graduate level text in an active field covering functional analysis, with an emphasis on Banach algebras.

Preparing students for further study of both the classical works and current research, this is an accessible text for students who have had a course in real and

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Banach algebras are Banach spaces equipped with a continuous multipli- tion. In roughterms,there arethree types ofthem:algebrasofboundedlinear operators on Bana

This textbook is an introduction to functional analysis suited to final year undergraduates or beginning graduates. Its various applications of Hilbert spaces,