Table of Contents

1. Banach Spaces2. Lebesgue Integration and the Lp Spaces3. Foundations of Linear Operator Theory4. Introduction to Nonlinear Operators5. Compact Sets in Banach Spaces6. The Adjoint Operator7. Linear Compact Operators8. Nonlinear Compact Operators and Monotonicity9. The Spectral Theorem10. Generalized Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Ordinary Differential Equations11. Linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations12. The Finite Element Method13. Introduction to Degree Theory14. Bifurcation Theory

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