The course is based on lecture notes and not on any textbook. This year's course will be based on the lecture notes which have developed during the last two years. Final version-updated
If you find typos or other mistakes in the notes, please contact Franz.
Here is a list of major changes in the Lecture Notes compared to the version at the start of the semester: Changes
Based on the diverse student body taking this course it is a difficult task to recommend books for the material. Below are some suggestions but I encourage you to visit the library and browse through the available literature and look if there are sources on the web that you find helpful.
The book starts with an introduction to metric spaces and develops the theory of normed spaces and inner product spaces as particular cases which is not the way we are going to approach these topics, but the material is well-represented and large parts of the syllabus are covered in this well-written book.
This book also starts with metric spaces and provides a thorough introduction into the topic and its applications. Browse through the parts that we are covering in the course.
The book covers the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, Young's inequality, Minkowski's inequality and many more. The exposition is outstanding and quite in contrast to the other available sources on inequalities.
Both books are available free of charge if you access the Springer webpage via the NTNU network (use vpn client).