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We prove the Fredholm Alternative, the Maximum Principle and the Spectral Theorem for self-adjoint compact operators. The final result is analogous to the statement that every Hermitian matrix is diagonalizable.

These videos are of a lecture course by Casey Rodriguez at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021, and made available as part of its OpenCourseWare initiative.