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ThePrincetonLecturesinAnalysisisaseriesoffourmathematicstextbooks,eachcovering
adifferentareaofmathematicalanalysis.TheywerewrittenbyEliasM.SteinandRami
ShakarchiandpublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPressbetween2003and2011.Theyare,in
order,FourierAnalysis:AnIntroductionComplexAnalysisRealAnalysis:Measure
Theory,Integration,andHilbertSpacesandFunctionalAnalysis:IntroductiontoFurther
TopicsinAnalysis.

PrincetonLecturesinAnalysis

SteinandShakarchiwrotethebooksbasedonasequenceofintensiveundergraduatecourses
Steinbeganteachinginthespringof2000atPrincetonUniversity.AtthetimeSteinwasa
mathematicsprofessoratPrincetonandShakarchiwasagraduatestudentinmathematics.
ThoughShakarchigraduatedin2002,thecollaborationcontinueduntilthefinalvolumewas
publishedin2011.Theseriesemphasizestheunityamongthebranchesofanalysisandthe
applicabilityofanalysistootherareasofmathematics.
ThePrincetonLecturesinAnalysishasbeenidentifiedasawellwrittenandinfluential
seriesoftextbooks,suitableforadvancedundergraduatesandbeginninggraduatestudentsin
mathematics.

Contents
1 History
2 Contents

ThecoversofthefourvolumesofthePrinceton
LecturesinAnalysis
FourierAnalysisComplexAnalysisReal
AnalysisFunctionalAnalysis

3 Reception

Author

EliasM.Stein,RamiShakarchi

4 Listofbooks

Country

UnitedStates

Language

English

Discipline

Mathematics

5 References
6 Externallinks

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History

Publisher

PrincetonUniversityPress

Published

2003,2003,2005,2011

No.ofbooks 4

Thefirstauthor,EliasM.Stein,isamathematicianwhohasmadesignificantresearch
contributionstothefieldofmathematicalanalysis.Before2000hehadauthoredorcoauthoredseveral
influentialadvancedtextbooksonanalysis.[1]
Beginninginthespringof2000,Steintaughtasequenceoffourintensiveundergraduatecoursesin
analysisatPrincetonUniversity,wherehewasamathematicsprofessor.Atthesametimehe
collaboratedwithRamiShakarchi,thenagraduatestudentinPrinceton'smathdepartmentstudying
underCharlesFefferman,toturneachofthecoursesintoatextbook.SteintaughtFourieranalysisin
thatfirstsemester,andbythefallof2000thefirstmanuscriptwasnearlyfinished.ThatfallStein
taughtthecourseincomplexanalysiswhileheandShakarchiworkedonthecorrespondingmanuscript.
EliasM.Stein
PaulHagelstein,thenapostdoctoralscholarinthePrincetonmathdepartment,wasateachingassistant
forthiscourse.Inspring2001,whenSteinmovedontotherealanalysiscourse,Hagelsteinstartedthe
sequenceanew,beginningwiththeFourieranalysiscourse.HagelsteinandhisstudentsusedSteinandShakarchi'sdraftsastexts,andthey
madesuggestionstotheauthorsastheypreparedthemanuscriptsforpublication.[2]TheprojectreceivedfinancialsupportfromPrinceton
UniversityandfromtheNationalScienceFoundation.[3]
ShakarchiearnedhisPh.D.fromPrincetonin2002[4]andmovedtoLondontoworkinfinance.Nonethelesshecontinuedworkingonthe
books,evenashisemployer,LehmanBrothers,collapsedin2008.[2]Thefirsttwovolumeswerepublishedin2003.Thethirdfollowedin
2005,andthefourthin2011.PrincetonUniversityPresspublishedallfour.[5][6][7][8]

Contents
Thevolumesaresplitintoseventotenchapterseach.Eachchapterbeginswithanepigraphprovidingcontextforthematerialandendswitha
listofchallengesforthereader,splitintoExercises,whichrangeindifficulty,andmoredifficultProblems.Throughouttheauthorsemphasize
theunityamongthebranchesofanalysis,oftenreferencingonebranchwithinanotherbranch'sbook.Theyalsoprovideapplicationsofthe
theorytootherfieldsofmathematics,particularlypartialdifferentialequationsandnumbertheory.[2][4]

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FourierAnalysiscoversthediscrete,continuous,andfiniteFouriertransformsandtheirproperties,includinginversion.Italsopresents
applicationstopartialdifferentialequations,Dirichlet'stheoremonarithmeticprogressions,andothertopics.[5]BecauseLebesgueintegration
isnotintroduceduntilthethirdbook,theauthorsuseRiemannintegrationinthisvolume.[4]TheybeginwithFourieranalysisbecauseofits
centralrolewithinthehistoricaldevelopmentandcontemporarypracticeofanalysis.[9]
ComplexAnalysistreatsthestandardtopicsofacourseincomplexvariablesaswellasseveralapplicationstootherareasofmathematics.[2][10]
Thechapterscoverthecomplexplane,Cauchy'sintegraltheorem,meromorphicfunctions,connectionstoFourieranalysis,entirefunctions,
thegammafunction,theRiemannzetafunction,conformalmaps,ellipticfunctions,andthetafunctions.[6]
RealAnalysisbeginswithmeasuretheory,Lebesgueintegration,anddifferentiationinEuclideanspace.ItthencoversHilbertspacesbefore
returningtomeasureandintegrationinthecontextofabstractmeasurespaces.ItconcludeswithachapteronHausdorffmeasureand
fractals.[7]
FunctionalAnalysishaschaptersonseveraladvancedtopicsinanalysis:Lpspaces,distributions,theBairecategorytheorem,probability
theoryincludingBrownianmotion,severalcomplexvariables,andoscillatoryintegrals.[8]

Reception
Thebooks"receivedravereviewsindicatingtheyarealloutstandingworkswrittenwithremarkableclarityandcare."[1]Reviewspraisedthe
exposition,[2][4][11]identifiedthebooksasaccessibleandinformativeforadvancedundergraduatesorgraduatemathstudents,[2][4][9][10]and
predictedtheywouldgrowininfluenceastheybecamestandardreferencesforgraduatecourses.[2][4][12]WilliamZiemerwrotethatthethird
bookomittedmaterialheexpectedtoseeinanintroductorygraduatetextbutnonethelessrecommendeditasareference.[11]
PeterDurencomparedSteinandShakarchi'sattemptataunifiedtreatmentfavorablywithWalterRudin'stextbookRealandComplex
Analysis,whichDurencallstooterse.Ontheotherhand,Durennotedthatthissometimescomesattheexpenseoftopicsthatresidenaturally
withinonlyonebranch.HementionedinparticulargeometricaspectsofcomplexanalysiscoveredinLarsAhlfors'stextbookbutnotedthat
SteinandShakarchialsotreatsometopicsAhlforsskips.[4]

Listofbooks
Stein,EliasM.Shakarchi,Rami(2003).FourierAnalysis:AnIntroduction.PrincetonUniversityPress.ISBN069111384X.
Stein,EliasM.Shakarchi,Rami(2003).ComplexAnalysis.PrincetonUniversityPress.ISBN0691113858.
Stein,EliasM.Shakarchi,Rami(2005).RealAnalysis:MeasureTheory,Integration,andHilbertSpaces.PrincetonUniversityPress.
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ISBN0691113866.
Stein,EliasM.Shakarchi,Rami(2011).FunctionalAnalysis:IntroductiontoFurtherTopicsinAnalysis.PrincetonUniversityPress.
ISBN9780691113876.

References
1. O'Connor,J.J.Robertson,E.F.(Feb2010)."EliasMenachemStein".UniversityofStAndrews.RetrievedSep16,2014.
2. Fefferman,CharlesFefferman,RobertHagelstein,PaulPavlovi,NataaPierce,Lillian(May2012)."PrincetonLecturesinAnalysisbyEliasM.
SteinandRamiShakarchiabookreview"(PDF).NoticesoftheAMS59(5).pp.64147.RetrievedSep16,2014.
3. PageixofallfourStein&Shakarchivolumes.
4. Duran,Peter(Nov2008)."PrincetonLecturesinAnalysis.ByEliasM.SteinandRamiShakarchi".AmericanMathematicalMonthly115(9).pp.863
66.
5. Stein&Shakarchi,FourierAnalysis.
6. Stein&Shakarchi,ComplexAnalysis.
7. Stein&Shakarchi,RealAnalysis.
8. Stein&Shakarchi,FunctionalAnalysis.
9. Gouva,FernandoQ.(Apr1,2003)."FourierAnalysis:AnIntroduction".MathematicalAssociationofAmerica.RetrievedSep16,2014.
10. Shiu,P.(Jul2004)."ComplexAnalysis,byEliasM.SteinandRamiShakarchi".TheMathematicalGazette88(512).pp.36970.
11. Ziemer,WilliamP.(Jun2006)."RealAnalysis:MeasureTheory,IntegrationandHilbertSpaces.ByE.SteinandM.Shakarchi".SIAMReview48(2).
pp.43536.
12. Schilling,RenL.(Mar2007)."RealAnalysis:MeasureTheory,IntegrationandHilbertSpaces,byEliasM.SteinandRamiShakarchi".The
MathematicalGazette91(520).p.172.

Externallinks
BookI(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7562.html)atPrincetonUniversityPress
BookII(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7563.html)atPrincetonUniversityPress
BookIII(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8008.html)atPrincetonUniversityPress
BookIV(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9627.html)atPrincetonUniversityPress
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