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Topological vector spaces. 2nd ed. (English) Zbl 0983.46002
Graduate Texts in Mathematics. 3. New York, NY: Springer. vi, 346 p. (1999).
The reliable textbook, highly estimated by several generations of students since its first edition in 1966 (cf. Zbl 0141.30503) is appeared now in extended, second edition. This book is a systematic text on topological vector spaces, including locally convex spaces, ordered topological vector spaces, and topological algebras, but the reader should be familiar in advance with the elementary facts on Banach and Hilbert spaces, to understand the general functional analytical notions and constructions presented here. The second edition was extended by a chapter on $$C^*$$- and $$W^*$$-algebras. The book will not and cannot replace other books on Banach spaces, operator spaces or on special function spaces, as the $$L_p$$-spaces, and, as the title says, the isometric theory of Banach spaces is not touched. The book is organized as follows:
Chapter 1: Topological vector spaces,
Chapter 2: Locally convex spaces,
Chapter 3: Linear mappings,
Chapter 4: Duality,
Chapter 5: Order structures,
Chapter 6: $$C^*$$- and $$W^*$$-algebras,
Appendix: Spectral properties of positive operators.
The book contains a large number of interesting exercises. Besides of other good books on linear topological spaces the book of Schaefer and Wolff keepts worth reading.

##### MSC:
 46A03 General theory of locally convex spaces 46-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functional analysis 46A04 Locally convex Fréchet spaces and (DF)-spaces 46A11 Spaces determined by compactness or summability properties (nuclear spaces, Schwartz spaces, Montel spaces, etc.) 46A25 Reflexivity and semi-reflexivity 46L05 General theory of $$C^*$$-algebras 46A40 Ordered topological linear spaces, vector lattices 46A20 Duality theory for topological vector spaces 46A30 Open mapping and closed graph theorems; completeness (including $$B$$-, $$B_r$$-completeness) 46A32 Spaces of linear operators; topological tensor products; approximation properties 46B42 Banach lattices 46A55 Convex sets in topological linear spaces; Choquet theory 47B60 Linear operators on ordered spaces 46F05 Topological linear spaces of test functions, distributions and ultradistributions