| The Second Edition if this successful text offers a systematic exposition of the basic ideas and results of Hilbert space theory and functional analysis. It includes a simple introduction to the Lebesgue integral and a new chapter on wavelets. The book provides the reader with revised examples and updated diverse applications to differential and integral equations with clear explanations of these methods as applied to optimization, variational and control problems, and problems in approximation theory, nonlinear instability, and bifurcation.
Key Features and Enhancements in the New Edition
* Systematic exposition of the basic ideas and results of Hilbert space theory
* Introduction to the Lebesgue integral
* New chapter on wavelets
* Improved presentation on results and proof
* Revised examples and updated applications
* Completely updated list of references --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Lokenath Debnath is Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in pure mathematics from the University of Calcutta, and obtained D.I.C. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and has had visiting appointments to several universities in the United States and abroad. His many honors and awards include two Senior Fulbright Fellowships and an NSF Scientist award to visit India for lectures and research. Dr. Debnath is author or co-author of several books and research papers in pure and applied mathematics, and serves on several editorial boards for scientific journals. He is the current and founding Managing Editor of the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.
Piotr Mikusinski received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1983, he became visiting lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he spent two years. He is currently a member of the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His main research interests are the theory of generalized functions and real analysis. He has published many research articles and is co-author with his father, Jan Mikusinski, of An Introduction to Analysis: From Number to Integral.
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