Math 175: Elementary Functional Analysis (Winter 2019)

Course Information

  • Instructor: Yiran Wang
  • Email: yrw(at)stanford.edu
  • Office hours: M, F 2:30pm-4pm at 380-384C.

  • Course assistant: Francisco Arana Herrera
  • Email: farana(at)stanford.edu
  • Office hours: Tue 4pm-7pm at 380-381F.

  • Textbook: Introduction to Hilber space by N. Young.
  • Notes on Lebesgue integrals by Prof. Luk.

  • Syllabus
  • Grades (on Canvas)

Exam Information

  • Midterm exam: Monday, February 11th, in class.
  • Midterm will cover Chapter 1-6 and the Lebesgue integrals.
  • Additional office hours for the midterm:
    Feb. 5 and 7, 9am-11am at 380-384C.


  • Final exam: Wednesday, March 20th,
    3:30pm-6:30pm at 380-380D.
  • Additional office hours for the final:
    Mar. 13 (Wed), 8:30am-10am at 380-384C.
    Mar. 14 (Thu), 9am-11am at 380-384C.
    Mar. 18 (Mon), 2:30pm-4pm at 380-384C.

Homemork

(Note: HW solutions are posted on Canvas.)

Running schedule

  • 01/07: Vector space, inner product space.
  • 01/09: Normed spaces, metric space.
  • 01/11: Finite vs infinite dimensional normed spaces.

  • 01/14: Completeness; closed point property.
  • 01/16: Orthogonality; Fourier series.
  • 01/18: Separable spaces; orthogonal complements.

  • 01/21: Holiday, no class.
  • 01/23: Classiclal Fourier series.
  • 01/25: Classiclal Fourier series.

  • 01/28: Lebesgue integrals on [a, b], properties.
  • 01/30: Completeness of L1.
  • 02/01: Completeness of L2.

  • 02/04: Linear functionals, dual spaces.
  • 02/06: Riesz representation theorem.
  • 02/08: Hahn-Banach theorem.

  • 02/11: Midterm
  • 02/13: Banach space of bounded operators.
  • 02/15: Inverses of operators.

  • 02/18: Holiday, no class.
  • 02/20: Adjoints of operators.
  • 02/22: Spectrum, compact operators.

  • 02/25: Compact operators, Fredholm alternative.
  • 02/27: Hilbert-Schmidt operators.
  • 03/01: The spectral theorem.

  • 03/04: The spectral theorem.
  • 03/06: Sturm-Liouville problem.
  • 03/08: Green's function.

  • 03/11: Green's function.
  • 03/13: Applications to PDE.
  • 03/15: Review.