Code: 2-MPG-105

Continuous assessment: None

Final assessment: Examination with problems

Objective: To provide basic education in general topology and functional analysis for non-specialists for use in applications.

Course syllabus:
  1. Topological space. Metric topology.
  2. Open and closed sets, neighbourhoods. Interior and closure.
  3. Continuous mapping.
  4. Basic constructions of topological spaces (subspace, finite product, quotient space).
  5. Countability axioms. Separation (T1 - T4). Connectedness. Compactness.
  6. Linear normed spaces, linear continuous functionals and operators, Hahn-Banach theorem, dual spaces, Banach spaces, Banach-Steinhaus theorem, differences between finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional spaces.
    Hilbert spaces, projection theorem, Riesz representation theorem, Bessel's inequality, Fourier coefficients, orthogonal systems, orthonormal basis.
  7. Spaces of continuous functions, Stone-Weierstrass theorem, dual of the space C(I).

Literature:

Kelley, J.: General Topology, 1957.
Rudin, W.: Real and Complex Analysis, Academia 1977.
Kolmogorov, A., Fomin, S.: Foundations of the Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis, 1975.
Taylor, A.: Introduction to Functional Analysis, Academia 1973.

The lecture follows the text Topology and Functional Analysis. Exercises can also be found there.