MATH 241, Functional Analysis, Winter 2022:

Office hours:: MW2-3 or by appointment (justs talk to me after class or email me)

office hours can be in my office, by zoom (please contact me first via email or phone), or we can have in-person office hour outside.

Office: APM 5256, tel. 534-2734

Email: hwenzl@ucsd.edu

Course book:

A course in Functional Analysis, by John Conway, first edition (you can get a pdf copy of it from our library from any computer on-campus)

Other book I may sometimes use: Functional Analysis, by Walter Rudin

Exercises You are strongly encouraged to look at the exercises in the book, and at the ones posted here. The exercises here should follow in a fairly straightforward way from the definitions. But please ask if you find some of them excessively tricky.

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Lecture notes

Lecture 2

Here are some notes about material which does not appear in the course book (can be ignored for the time being).

Notes

Here are more notes about the spectral theorem.

Spectral theorem and von Neumann algebras