Mathematics

Functional Analysis

Part of Functional Analysis, level 7. About 39 hours of study across the topics below.

Banach & Hilbert Spaces

  1. Normed & Banach Spacesconvergence, completeness, examples (sequence and function spaces)6.5–12 h
  2. Hilbert Spacesinner products, orthonormal bases, projections, Riesz representation6.5–12 h
  3. Bounded Linear Operatorsoperator norm, dual spaces, adjoints, compact operators6.5–12 h

Theorems & Applications

  1. Fundamental TheoremsHahn-Banach, open mapping, closed graph, uniform boundedness6.5–12 h
  2. Spectral Theory Introspectrum of operators, spectral theorem for compact/self-adjoint operators6.5–12 h
  3. Distributions & Sobolev Spacestest functions, weak derivatives, applications to PDE6.5–12 h