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Lecture notes

1. Towards functional calculus
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2. Hilbert spaces
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3. Compact operators
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4. A review of calculus
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5. Fourier transform
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6. Fundamental solutions
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7. The Dirichlet problem
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8. Measure theory
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9. Integration theory
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10. Function spaces
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11. Radon-Nikodym derivatives
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12. The Stone-Weierstrass theorem
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13. Spectral theory
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14. Banach spaces
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A. Radon integration
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B. Measure theory
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