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The document outlines the course details for Functional Analysis (MATH 36202 and MATH M6202), including lectures by Alexander Gorodnik and Liviana Palmisano, class times, prerequisites, and course objectives. The course focuses on core concepts in Functional Analysis, such as Banach and Hilbert spaces, and includes a final assessment through a written examination and a presentation for level M students. Key references for the course include works by Kreyszig, Lax, Rudin, Young, and Zimmer.

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The document outlines the course details for Functional Analysis (MATH 36202 and MATH M6202), including lectures by Alexander Gorodnik and Liviana Palmisano, class times, prerequisites, and course objectives. The course focuses on core concepts in Functional Analysis, such as Banach and Hilbert spaces, and includes a final assessment through a written examination and a presentation for level M students. Key references for the course include works by Kreyszig, Lax, Rudin, Young, and Zimmer.

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Functional Analysis

MATH 36202 and MATH M6202

Alexander Gorodnik <[email protected]> Howard House 5a


Lecturers:
Liviana Palmisano <[email protected]> Howard House 2.16

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Monday 9-10am at SM4


Class Times: Tuesday 4-5pm at SM2
Friday 10-11am at SM2

Office hours: Dr. Liviana Palmisano: Tuesday from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Prerequisites: MATH 20200 Metric Spaces 2

Course Description: The unit aims to provide students with a firm grounding in the theory
and techniques of Functional Analysis and to offer students ample opportunity to build on their
problem-solving ability in this subject. It also aims to equip students with independent self-study
and presentation-giving skills. This course sets out to explore some core notions in Functional
Analysis which originated in the study of integral/differential equations and more generally
equations for operators in infinite dimensional spaces. These techniques can be helpful, for
instance, in analysing trigonometric series and can be used to make sense of the determinant
of an infinite-dimensional matrix. Functional Analysis has found broad applicability in diverse
areas of mathematics, physics, economics, and other sciences.
Students will be introduced to the theory of Banach and Hilbert spaces. The highlight of
the course will be an exposition of the four fundamental theorems in the Functional Analysis
(Hahn-Banach theorem, uniform boundedness theorem, open mapping theorem, closed graph
theorem). The unit may also include some discussion of the spectral theory of linear operators.

Course Assessment: The final assessment mark for the unit is calculated from a standard
2.5-hour written closed-book examination in May-June. Calculators are NOT permitted in this
examination. Raw scores on the examinations will be determined according to the marking
scheme written on the examination paper. The marking scheme, indicating the maximum score
per question, is a guide to the relative weighting of the questions.
Students on the level M unit will also have to give a presentation on an additional topic. This
counts towards 10% of the final mark and will be done in the last weeks of the teaching block.

References: The lectures will mostly follow Young’s book (Ch. 1-8) and Kreyszig’s book
(Ch. 2-4). Most of this material can be also found in the other textbooks.
1. E. Kreyszig, Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications, John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
2. D. Lax, Functional Analysis, Wiley lnterscience, New York, 2002.
3. W. Rudin, Functional Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1991.
4. N. Young, An Introduction to Hilbert Space, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
5. R. Zimmer, Essential Results in Functional Analysis, University of Chicago Press, 1990.

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