Twelve Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Analysis
Twelve Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Analysis
The striking theorems showcased in this book are among the most profound results of twentieth-century analysis. The authors' original approach combines rigorous mathematical proofs with commentary on the underlying ideas to provide a rich insight into these landmarks in mathematics. Results ranging from the proof of Littlewood's conjecture to the Banach–Tarski paradox have been selected for their mathematical beauty as well as educative value and historical role. Placing each theorem in historical perspective, the authors paint a coherent picture of modern analysis and its development, whilst maintaining mathematical rigour with the provision of complete proofs, alternative proofs, worked examples, and more than 150 exercises and solution hints. This edition extends the original French edition of 2009 with a new chapter on partitions, including the Hardy–Ramanujan theorem, and a significant expansion of the existing chapter on the Corona problem.
- Showcases the work of Littlewood, Riemann, Hadamard, Wiener and others
- This first English edition contains a brand new chapter on partitions, including the Hardy–Ramanujan theorem and its improvement by Rademacher
- Provides more than 150 exercises with hints on how to solve them
Product details
July 2015Paperback
9781107650343
546 pages
230 × 150 × 28 mm
0.72kg
25 b/w illus. 153 exercises
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Table of Contents
- Foreword Gilles Godefroy
- Preface
- 1. The Littlewood Tauberian theorem
- 2. The Wiener Tauberian theorem
- 3. The Newman Tauberian theorem
- 4. Generic properties of derivative functions
- 5. Probability theory and existence theorems
- 6. The Hausdorff–Banach–Tarski paradoxes
- 7. Riemann's 'other' function
- 8. Partitio Numerorum
- 9. The approximate functional equation of θ0
- 10. The Littlewood conjecture
- 11. Banach algebras
- 12. The Carleson corona theorem
- 13. The problem of complementation in Banach spaces
- 14. Hints for solutions
- References
- Notations
- Index.
