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By W.B. Johnson, J. Lindenstrauss

Featuring an summary of such a lot elements of recent Banach house concept and its purposes, this guide deals updated surveys through a variety of specialist authors. The surveys speak about the relation of the topic with such components as harmonic research, advanced research, classical convexity, likelihood concept, operator conception, combinatorics, common sense, geometric degree idea and partial differential equations. includes the entire heritage wanted for examining the other bankruptcy. all the 21 articles after his is dedicated to at least one particular course of Banach area conception or its functions. each one article incorporates a stimulated creation in addition to an exposition of the most effects, tools and open difficulties in its particular course. Many articles include new proofs of recognized effects in addition to expositions of proofs that are not easy to find within the literature or are just defined within the unique learn papers. The guide can be invaluable to researchers in Banach idea, in addition to graduate scholars and mathematicians who are looking to get an idea of some of the advancements in Banach area conception.

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