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1. The Scope of the Article. The study of functional analysis, that is, that of numerically valued functions on an abstract space, has developed so rapidly and so extensively in the last twenty years that no textbook, however comprehensive, could hope to cover the entire subject at all adequately. The aim of the present article is a very modest one. It is to provide a brief survey of certain parts of the subject which are likely to be of most interest to, or to be used most frequently by, theoretical physicists, or others whose main interest lies in applying the theory. Even then, there are obvious omissions; for example, very little has been said about integral equations or the calculus of variations.
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Sneddon, I.N. (1955). Functional Analysis. In: Flügge, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Physics / Handbuch der Physik. Encyclopedia of Physics / Handbuch der Physik, vol 1 / 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45825-5_3
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