The book can be used for graduate courses in real and abstract analysis and can also be useful as a self-study for students who begin a Ph.D. program in Analysis. The first part of the book may also be suggested as a second reading for undergraduate students with a strong interest in mathematical analysis.
Simone Secchi obtained a Ph.D. in Functional Analysis from SISSA, Trieste under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Ambrosetti. He is currently Associate Professor of Mathematical Analysis at Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca. His research interests are partial differential equations, critical point theory, and topological and variational methods for PDEs.