A reference textbook that summarizes the "algebra of analysis" that includes some mention of the contemporary trends in the development of history. This text provides an up-to-date account of Banach and locally convex algebras with emphasis on general theory, representations and homology. In its description of general theory and in the examples it considers it is faithful to earlier traditions in the subject but differs from those books in being based on an approach through homological algebra. This approach leads Helemskii to consider topics not covered at this level in any other book. These topics include: complemented and uncomplemented ideal; projective and weak tensor products of banach algebras; Taylors multivariable holomorphic functional calculus; the Wedderburn decomposition of Banach algevras; a whole chapter on the homology of Banach algebras.
Reviews
'This text provides an up-to-date account of Banach and locally convex algebras.' L'Enseignement Mathematique, 3-4 1993
a useful and enjoyable book * Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 27, 1995 *
Besides the mathematical quality of the book, the reviewer wants also to remark here the charming style of the presentation * C. Badea, Zbl. Math, 785 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198535782
Author A. Ya Helemskii
Format Hardback
Page Count 462
Imprint Clarendon Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 781g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 162mm * 31mm