| Lecture | Date | Topics |
| 25 | 3/17/97 | Historical introduction; norms, inner products, families of seminorms, topological vector spaces; polarization identity and parallelogram law |
| 26 | 3/19/97 | Examples of topological vector spaces of various sorts |
| 27 | 3/21/97 | Closed subspaces, quotient spaces, projection onto a closed convex subset of Hilbert space |
| 28 | 3/24/97 | Example of closed subspaces with a non-closed sum; orthogonal decomposition in Hilbert space; Bessel's inequality |
| 29 | 3/26/97 | summation over arbitrary index sets; orthonormal bases in Hilbert spaces; Hamel, Hilbert, and Schauder bases |
| 30 | 3/28/97 | linear operators; completeness of the space of bounded operators; dual spaces; Hahn-Banach Theorem; adjoint operators; annihilators |
| 31 | 3/31/97 | duals of subspaces and quotient spaces; the Riesz Representation Theorems |
| 32 | 4/2/97 | duals of function and sequence spaces; biduals and reflexivity; Baire Category Theorem; Open Mapping Theorem |
| 33 | 4/4/97 | Inverse Mapping Theorem; Closed Graph Theorem; Uniform Boundedness Principle |
| 34 | 4/7/97 | Weak topology; convex separation theorems; convexity and weak topology |
| 35 | 4/9/97 | Weak* topology; examples of weak and weak* convergence; Alaoglu's Theorem |
| 36 | 4/11/97 | more on weak* topology; reflexivity iff unit ball is weakly compact |
| 37 | 4/14/97 | problem session |
| 38 | 4/16/97 | Closed Range Theorem; Hilbert-Schmidt operators |
| 39 | 4/18/97 | Compact operators |
| 40 | 4/21/97 | Spectral Theorem for compact self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space |
| 41 | 4/23/97 | Spectral Theorem for compact normal operators in Hilbert space |
| 42 | 4/25/97 | the spectrum and resolvent of operators in Banach space; preparation for the study of the spectrum of compact operators |
| 43 | 4/28/97 | the spectrum of a compact operator in a Banach space; Fredholm alternative |
| 44 | 4/30/97 | general spectral theory; Gelfand-Mazur Theorem; spectral radius formula |
| 45 | 5/2/97 | Spectral Mapping Theorem; Spectral Theorem for self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space |