Operator Theory by Example

Aimed at graduate students, this textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to operator theory. Rather than discuss the subject in the abstract, this textbook covers the subject through twenty examples of a wide variety of operators, discussing the norm, spectrum, commutant, invariant subspaces, and interesting properties of each operator.

The text is supplemented by over 600 end-of-chapter exercises, designed to help the reader master the topics covered in the chapter, ...