It is the author's aim to give a systematic account of the most im portant ideas, methods and results of the theory of topological vector spaces. After a rapid development during the last 15 years, this theory has now achieved a form which makes such an account seem both possible and desirable. This present first volume begins with the fundamental ideas of general topology. These are of crucial importance for the theory that follows, and so it seems necessary to give a concise account, giving complete proofs. This also has the advantage that the only preliminary knowledge required for reading this book is of classical analysis and set theory. In the second chapter, infinite dimensional linear algebra is considered in comparative detail. As a result, the concept of dual pair and linear topologies on vector spaces over arbitrary fields are intro duced in a natural way. It appears to the author to be of interest to follow the theory of these linearly topologised spaces quite far, since this theory can be developed in a way which closely resembles the theory of locally convex spaces. It should however be stressed that this part of chapter two is not needed for the comprehension of the later chapters. Chapter three is concerned with real and complex topological vector spaces. The classical results of Banach's theory are given here, as are fundamental results about convex sets in infinite dimensional spaces.

Precise exposition provides an excellent summary of the modern theory of locally convex spaces and develops the theory of distributions in terms of convolutions, tensor products, and Fourier transforms. 1966 edition.

This book gives an introduction to distribution theory, based on the work of Schwartz and of many other people. It is the first book to present distribution theory as a standard text. Each chapter has been enhanced with many exercises and examples.

The first five sections deliver the general setting of the theory (topological vector spaces, metrizability, projective and inductive limits, topological direct sums). In sections 6-10 we investigate the class of "barrelled" topological vector spaces which is important also in this general theory. The main part of these sections is take by theorems on linear mappings (the Banach-Steinhaus theorem, closed graph theorems, open mapping theorems). Section 11 introduces the "bornological" spaces, and in section 12 we deal with spaces of linear mappings and their topologies. Interesting generalizations of the class of (DF)-spaces are given in sections 15-17 by considering the following property: a subset, which is "large enough", is a neighborhood of 0, if and only if it includes a neighborhood on all bounded balanced sets. Finally, section 18 interprets and completes the foregoing considerations for (DF)-spaces.

"the results of the book are very interesting and profound and can be read successfully without preliminary knowledge. It is written with a great didactical mastery, clearly and precisely It can be recommended not only for specialists on integration theory, but also for a large scale of readers, mainly for postgraduate students".Mathematics Abstracts

With many new concrete examples and historical notes, Topological Vector Spaces, Second Edition provides one of the most thorough and up-to-date treatments of the Hahn-Banach theorem. This edition explores the theorem's connection with the axiom of choice, discusses the uniqueness of Hahn-Banach extensions, and includes an entirely new chapter on v

"Designed for a one-year course in topological vector spaces, this text is geared toward beginning graduate students of mathematics. Topics include Banach space, open mapping and closed graph theorems, local convexity, duality, equicontinuity, operators,inductive limits, and compactness and barrelled spaces. Extensive tables cover theorems and counterexamples. Rich problem sections throughout the book. 1978 edition"--

This is a softcover reprint of the 1987 English translation of the second edition of Bourbaki's Espaces Vectoriels Topologiques. Much of the material has been rearranged, rewritten, or replaced by a more up-to-date exposition, and a good deal of new material has been incorporated in this book, reflecting decades of progress in the field.

The present book is intended to be a systematic text on topological vector spaces and presupposes familiarity with the elements of general topology and linear algebra. The author has found it unnecessary to rederive these results, since they are equally basic for many other areas of mathematics, and every beginning graduate student is likely to have made their acquaintance. Simi larly, the elementary facts on Hilbert and Banach spaces are widely known and are not discussed in detail in this book, which is mainly addressed to those readers who have attained and wish to get beyond the introductory level. The book has its origin in courses given by the author at Washington State University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Tiibingen in the years 1958-1963. At that time there existed no reasonably complete text on topological vector spaces in English, and there seemed to be a genuine need for a book on this subject. This situation changed in 1963 with the appearance of the book by Kelley, Namioka et al. [1] which, through its many elegant proofs, has had some influence on the final draft of this manuscript. Yet the two books appear to be sufficiently different in spirit and subject matter to justify the publication of this manuscript; in particular, the present book includes a discussion of topological tensor products, nuclear spaces, ordered topological vector spaces, and an appendix on positive operators.