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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Functional Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | While the introduction to distributions and their connections to Fourier analysis and differential equations is nice, the text gets bogged down with proofs about convolutions that are highly technical (and make either good practice or a good time for Rudin to actually use, for once, "The details are left to the reader..."). |
 | | The subject of functional analysis, while fundamental and central in the landscape of mathematics, really started with seminal theorems due to Banach, Hilbert, von Neumann, Herglotz, Hausdorff, Friedrichs, Steinhouse,...and many other of, the perhaps less well known, founding fathers, in Central Europe (at the time), in the period between the two World Wars. |
 | | The Journal of Functional Analysis, starting in the 1960ties, broadened the subject, reaching almost all branches of science, and finding functional analytic flavor in theories surprisingly far from the original roots of the subject. |
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