MATH 852: Functional Analysis 1

Syllabus - Fall 2005

Instructor: Marianne Korten
Office: Cardwell 234, 532-0567
Exercises meetings: Mondays 3:30, CW129.  Office Hours: Fridays 3:30

Textbook:   Analyse Fonctionnelle, Haim Brezis, Dunod. Also available from amazon.fr or amazon.ca.

I will also use a number of classics to assign homework from, a sample of authors is Wheeden-Zygmund,
Rudin, Kolmogorov-Fomin, Cotlar-Cignoli, Gilbarg-Trudinger (most of them are available in the library),
and what else comes in handy. 


Course description:

 Topological vector spaces; locally convex spaces (Hahn-Banach Theorem, weak topology, dual pairs, Krein-Milman Theorem, theory of distributions); Banach spaces (Uniform Boundedness Principle, Open Mapping Theorem and applications, Alaoglu's Theorem, analytic vector-valued functions, Krein-Smulian Theorem); C(X) as a Banach space (Stone-Weierstrass Theorem, Riesz Theorem); Lp spaces.


Grading policy: 

Attendance and participation are requiered. You are expected to complete the homework you will be assigned regularly,
and not fall behind, although it will not be collected nor graded.
There will be one midterm and one final. Final grades will be based on witten work and as follows: 50% for the midterm,
50%  for the final. Some homework exercises will reappear in the midterm and the final (!).


Journal

Here I will  post your (roughly weekly) assignments.