Principles: Uniform Boundedness

So last week we talked about the Baire Category Theorem, and this important tool will give us three equivalent theorems about the qualitative properties of operators on Banach spaces. Today we will begin with the first theorem, uniform boundedness. The proof of this...

Principles: Baire’s Lemma

So today I am starting a new series on the Principles of Functional Analysis to give you all an appreciation for the power that these simple truths hold. We will start today with Baire’s Lemma , which will require some definitions, hopefully, all familiar. (If...

Analysis Tricks Part 1

I recently learnt a really neat trick when it comes to proving two quantities are equivalent. It started of with my supervisor claiming that for some and , (1)   is obvious. To me, it was not obvious at all, and may not be so obvious to you either. But what my...

On the definition of a Topological Manifold

EDIT 7/1/2019: The proof for each finite subset of a Hausdorff space is closed is corrected. Before I begin, as stated in my articles section, I said I am going to start writing about all the neat maths I’ve learnt throughout my final year project in physics, in...