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The University of Nottingham,
King's Meadow Campus,
Lenton Ln, Nottingham NG7 2NR, United Kingdom,

Course Description,
The aim of this session is to cover the basic theory of compact linear operators on Banach spaces. This includes definitions and statements of the background and main results, with illustrative examples and some proofs.

Target audience: This material is accessible to anyone who has a basic knowledge of metric space topology, and who knows what a bounded linear operator on a Banach space is. It is most likely to be suitable for postgraduate students or final year undergraduates.