English | 286 pages | Springer; Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1992 edition (December 8, 2010) | 3540505849 | PDF | 16.51 Mb

The twentieth-century view of the analysis of functions is dominated by the study of classes of functions. This volume of the Encyclopaedia covers the origins, development and applications of linear functional analysis, explaining along the way how one is led naturally to the modern approach.
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