I have told him about this study group. He said that it seems rather tempting, but he will not probably will have time.
I looked a bit into the first chapter while I was traveling. The text seems rather dense. Both Stone-Weierstrass and Arzela-Ascoli already in the first chapter. Hats off to anybody who is able to read this as their first text in functional analysis.
@MartinSleziak: yes, it is rather dense, but good to know that's not just me being slow. Galois and I have already had somewhat of an intro to functional analysis, but mine was nowhere close to this. also, Prof. Einsiedler prefers to ask for too much of his students than to not challenge them, so I think that also is a reason for the text being this dense. plus as he stated, it's not meant as a single course but rather as many possible directions one could go into when teaching it.
