Real and Functional Analysis: Third Edition

[from Preface] This book is meant as a text for a first year graduate course in analysis. Any standard course in undergraduate analysis will constitute sufficient preparation for its understanding, for instance, my Undergraduate Analysis. I assume that the reader is acquainted with notions of uniform convergence and the like.

In this third edition, I have reorganized the book by covering integration before functional analysis. Such a rearrangement fits the way courses are taught in all the places I know of. I have added a number of examples and exercises, as well as some material about integration on the real line (e.g. on Dirac sequence approximation and on Fourier analysis), and some material on functional analysis (e.g. the theory of the Gelfand transform in Chapter XVI). These upgrade previous exercises to sections in the text. In a sense, the subject matter covers the same topics as elementary calculus, viz. linear algebra, differentiation and integration. This time, however, these subjects are treated in a manner suitable for the training of professionals, i.e. people who will use the tools in further investigations, be it in mathematics, or physics, or what have you.

In the first part, we begin with point set topology, essential for all analysis, and we cover the most important results.

In the second part, Chapters IV and V, we describe briefly the two basic linear spaces of analysis, namely Banach spaces and Hilbert spaces.

Then follows parts on integration, calculus, functional analysis and global analysis.