Shmuel Kantorovitz received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1962. After postdocs at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he took on an Assistant Professorship at Yale University, and became an Associate and then Full Professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He then returned to Israel to become a Full Professor at Bar-Ilan University, where he is now Professor Emeritus.
Ami Viselter received his Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University in 2009. After postdocs in the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and at the University of Alberta, he became a faculty member at the University of Haifa, where he is currently a tenured Senior Lecturer.

• 1: Measures


• 2: Construction of measures


• 3: Measure and topology


• 4: Continuous linear functionals


• 5: Duality


• 6: Bounded operators


• 7: Banach algebras


• 8: Hilbert spaces


• 9: Integral representation


• 10: Unbounded operators


• 11: C*-algebras


• 12: Von Neumann algebras


• 13: Constructions of C*-algebras


• Application I


• Probability


• Application II


• Distributions

Aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students this textbook provides an introduction to
the vast and crucial area of modern analysis. This new edition begins by covering the theoretical bases, gradually moving on to more advanced subjects and practical applications, supplementing the material with many exercises.