Overview: Provides an overview of the theoretical developments of the last thirty years in addition to a number of concrete applications in operator theory and numerical analysis.Focuses on non-C*-algebras.Cont.
Written as a hybrid between a research monograph and a textbook the first half of this book is concerned with basic concepts for the study of Banach algebras that, in a sense, are not too far from being commutative. Essentially, the algebra under consideration either has a sufficiently large center or is subject to a higher order commutator property (an algebra with a so-called polyn