Functional analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with infinite-dimensional vector spaces (mainly function spaces) and mappings between them. The spaces may be of different, and possibly infinite, dimensions. These mappings are called operators or, if the range is on the real line or in the complex plane, functionals.
Functional Analysis
See also
Functional, Functional Equation, Generalized Function, Operator Explore this topic in the MathWorld classroomExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
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