MAT3400 – Linear Analysis with Applications

Course content

The course provides advanced knowledge in measure and integration theory together with a basic introduction to functional analysis. Covered topics include Banach and Hilbert spaces, the Hahn-Banach theorem, dual spaces, orthonormal bases, Jacobi’s transformation theorem, Lp-spaces and their duals, construction and decomposition of measures, Lebesgue-Stieltjes measures, the Riesz-Markov theorem, product measures and the Fubini-Tonelli theorems, the Radon-Nikodym theorem, the fundamental theorem of calculus, the Fourier transform and the Plancherel theorem, characteristic functions and conditional expectations.

Learning outcome

After completing the course you

  • are used to work with measure spaces and integration of measurable functions

  • have a good understanding of the most frequently used tools of Lebesgue integration such as convergence theorems and Fubini-Tonelli theorems

  • have a good understanding of various function spaces and the