TABLE OF CONTENTS: A book's apology xviii Index of notation xxii Chapter 1: Reminders: convergence of sequences and series 1 Chapter 2: Measure theory and the Lebesgue integral 51 Chapter 3: Integral calculus 73 Chapter 4: Complex Analysis I 87 Chapter 5: Complex Analysis II 135 Chapter 6: Conformal maps 155 Chapter 7: Distributions I 179 Chapter 8: Distributions II 223 Chapter 9: Hilbert spaces; Fourier series 249 Chapter 10: Fourier transform of functions 277 Chapter 11: Fourier transform of distributions 299 Chapter 12: The Laplace transform 331 Chapter 13: Physical applications of the Fourier transform 355 Chapter 14: Bras, kets, and all that sort of thing 377 Chapter 15: Green functions 407 Chapter 16: Tensors 433 Chapter 17: Differential forms 463 Chapter 18: Groups and group representations 489 Chapter 19: Introduction to probability theory 509 Chapter 20: Random variables 521 Chapter 21: Convergence of random variables: central limit theorem 553 Appendices A: Reminders concerning topology and normed vector spaces 573 B: Elementary reminders of differential calculus 585 C: Matrices 593 D: A few proofs 597 Tables Fourier transforms 609 Laplace transforms 613 Probability laws 616 Further reading 617 References 621 Portraits 627 Sidebars 629 Index 631 Return to Book Description File created: 4/25/2013 |