The series de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics was founded in 1982 by the late Professor Heinz Bauer and Professor Peter Gabriel.
The series publishes monographs and textbooks in mathematics and its applications. Apart from covering important areas of current interest, a major aim is to make topics of an interdisciplinary nature accessible to the non-specialist.
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The Gelfand theory of Banach algebras is presented in this book, along with several significant applications. The famed commutative and non-commutative Gelfand-Naimark theorems are then addressed, and intriguing applications of them are shown, after presenting C*-algebras and using the prior theory.
University of Athens, Greece.
