A Short Course on Spectral Theory
by William Arveson · William Arveson
Compact graduate text (Springer GTM 209) developing spectral theory from Banach algebras and the Gelfand transform through the spectral theorem for normal operators, compact and Fredholm operators, and index theory. Readers finish able to follow modern operator-theory literature.
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