Aimed at students and researchers, this is the very first book to
present functional analysis in a unified manner, along with applications
to economics, social sciences, and engineering. What readers will find
in this monograph is nothing less than a complete and rigorous study of
modern functional analysis. It is intended for the student or researcher
who could benefit from functional analytic methods, but who does not
have an extensive background in the subject and does not plan to make a
career as a functional analyst. It develops the topological structures
in connection with measure theory, convexity, Banach lattices,
integration, correspondences (multifunctions), and the analytic approach
to Markov processes. Many of the results were previously available only
in works scattered throughout the literature.