16:640:507

Fall 2021

Sagun Chanillo

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Course Description:

This will be a basic Functional Analysis course covering the three major theorems, the Hahn-Banach theorem, Uniform boundedness principle and the Open mapping-Closed Graph theorem. We shall also do Fredholm theory as it is useful to people doing PDE and also the Spectral theory of self-adjoint and bounded operators. The course will emphasize applications of Functional Analysis to PDE via illustrations in the use of Sobolev spaces.

Textbook:

Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations, by Haim Brezis, Universitext, Springer-Verlag

Prerequisites:

501, 502