Over the past twenty-five years K-theory has become an integrated part of the study of C*-algebras. This book gives a very elementary introduction to this interesting and rapidly growing area of mathematics. The authors cover the basic properties of the functors K and K1 and their interrelationship.
An introduction to C-star algebras
β Scribed by de la Harpe P., Jones V.
- Book ID
- 127398611
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 686 KB
- Edition
- web draft
- Category
- Library
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Presents for study operator algebras in Hilbert spaces, Rings of operators or von Neumann algebras & Banach algebras.
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