Functional Analysis noted historian and fortification expert

noted historian and fortification expert Sidney Toy takes the reader on a detailed guided tour of over 120 of the most famous castles and fortresses of Europe and the Middle East

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Illustrated throughout with numerous figures and tables

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Functional Analysis noted historian and fortification expertExcellent treatment of the subject geared toward students with background in linear algebra, advanced calculus, physics and engineering. Text covers introduction to inner product spaces, normed and metric spaces, and topological spaces; complete orthonormal sets, the Hahn Banach theorem and its consequences, spectral notions, square roots, a spectral decomposition theorem, and many other related subjects. Chapters conclude with exercises intended to