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MATH 1270, Fall 2008
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Date  Sections What is covered. Comments  Homework assignments 
       
9/3   What is Functional Analysis is about. Metric spaces.   
9/5  1.1, 1.2  Completion of metric spaces.
Vector spaces, normed spaces, Banach spaces
Examples: C[a,b], l^p
 
       
9/8  s 1.2,   Mikowski's, Holder and Young inequalities  
9/10  s 1.5  Resonance Lemma (cf s. 3.2). Completeness of \ell^p  1. Prove that C[a,b] is complete. 
 2. Prove that C_p[a,b] is not complete
 3. s 1.6, # 12, 13
9/12  s. 4.1  Bounded linear operators    
       
 9/15    \epsilon/3-theorem and the uniform boundedness principle.   See notes
 9/17  s. 2.1  Hilbert spaces. Basic definitions and examples  s. 2.4 # 1--4. 
 9/19  s. 2.1  Orthogonal bases.  
       
 9/22  s. 2.2  Orthogonal projections. Orthogonal decomposition    Click here to see the assignment. (will be colected Fri 9/26)
 9/24  see notes  Fourier series. Definition, motivation. Dirichlet kernel.  Show that  \|D_n\|_{L^1} \sim \log n. (see notes for details). As a warm-up, estimate \sum_{n=1}^{10^{23}} \frac{1}{n}  .
This assignment will be discussed Fri. 9/26..
 9/26  See notes  Convergence of Fourier series; convergence in L^2. Divergence at a point. Fejer means.   
       
 9/29  See notes  Uniform convergence of Fejer means.      
 10/1  See notes  Convergence of Fejer means in [; L^p ;].  Properties of convolution, convolution theorem. Dini condition, Riemann--Lebesgue lemma and pointwise convergence of Fourier series.    
 10/3  s. 2.3  Riesz Representation theorem.    s 2.4 # 11,  14 d, e (we are considering [; L^2(-\pi, \pi) ;] here). 
       
 10/6  see handout  and notes  Adjoint operator. Self-adjoint, normal and unitary operators.      
 10/8      Click here to get the assignment.   
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