This book provides a unique path for graduate or advanced undergraduate students to begin
studying the rich subject of functional analysis with fewer prerequisites than is normally
required. The text begins with a self-contained and highly efficient introduction to topology
and measure theory which focuses on the essential notions required for the study of functional
analysis and which are often buried within full-length overviews of the subjects. This is
particularly useful for those in applied mathematics engineering or physics who need to have
a firm grasp of functional analysis but not necessarily some of the more abstruse aspects of
topology and measure theory normally encountered. The reader is assumed to only have knowledge
of basic real analysis complex analysis and algebra. The latter part of the text provides an
outstanding treatment of Banach space theory and operator theory covering topics not usually
found together in other books on functional analysis. Written in a clear concise manner and
equipped with a rich array of interesting and important exercises and examples this book can
be read for an independent study used as a text for a two-semester course or as a
self-contained reference for the researcher.
