ANTICIPATION OF HILBERT SPACES

FREDHOLM, IVAR.

Sur une classe d'equations fonctionnelles.

Stockholm, Beijer, 1903. 4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica, 27. Band]. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 365-390.

First printing of Fredholm's landmark paper which is considered to be the publication which established operator theory, thereby anticipating Hilbert Spaces. David Hilbert developed the abstraction of Hilbert space in association with research on integral equations prompted by Fredholm's.

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