TY - BOOK AU - Sunder,V S TI - Operators on Hilbert spaces T2 - Texts and Readings in Mathematics SN - 9789380250748 U1 - 515.723 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - HBA KW - Mathematics KW - Functional Analysis KW - Operators KW - Hilbert Space N1 - Includes bibliography and index; Hilbert Space -- The Spectral Theorem -- Beyond normal operators N2 - This book was born out of a desire to have a brief introduction to operator theory - the spectral theorem (arguably the most important theorem in Hilbert space theory), polar decomposition, compact operators, trace-class operators, etc., which would involve a minimum of initial spadework (avoiding such digressions as, for example, the Gelfand theory of commutative Banach algebras), and which only needed simple facts from a first semester graduate course on Functional Analysis. ER -