I recently started studying functional analysis. I have many ebooks loaded on my laptop, but can't figure out which one to start with. I've asked my instructor, and he says there aren't any specific books to start with. Here's a brief list of the topics on our syllabus:
- Normed linear spaces
- Banach Spaces
- Hilbert spaces
- Compact Operators
- Knowledge of $C[0,1],L^p[0,1]$
- Continuous linear operators
- Hahn-Banach theorem
- Open mapping and Closed Graph Theorem
- Uniform Boundedness Principle
I'm seeing these topics first in my lifetime. One thing I want to ask is whether functional analysis is very difficult. Please suggest some books to start this topic which covers the above and contains some exercises. Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
You can start out with the book Introductory Functional Analysis by B. Daya Reddy.
I started reading it and was not able to stop because everything was so clear and rigorously defined.
This book is unlike any other book you find off of the shelf, which are filled with indecipherable notations that are not transferable beyond what that particular book teaches you. Instead, the book by Reddy is filled with practical yet simple exercises that you can deal with only reading what is contained in the text and nothing else. What is so amazing is that the material contained in this book is so transferable, after reading it you will be able to tackle any research paper at least at the engineering level.
It is truly the best book to start out functional analysis