Download or read book Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume I written by Richard V. Kadison and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of a two-volume text for an intermediate graduate course or for self-study for students familiar with basic measure theory and topology. Volume one covers linear spaces, Hilbert space and linear operators, Banach algebras, C*- algebra theory, and von Neumann algebra theory. The volumes are numbered consecutively but indexed separately. Volume one was originally published by Academic Press in 1983. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR