'This is a much awaited book, which brings together several results obtained in the last decades, pertaining to the applications of operator theory in Hilbert space to function theory … The book is extremely nicely written. It does not need many prerequisites, besides elementary facts of complex analysis and functional analysis; and it can be of much use to interested researchers as well as to graduate students.' Dan Timotin, zbMATH
Part I. Commutative Theory: 1. The origins of operator-theoretic approaches to function theory; 2. Operator analysis on D: model formulas, lurking Isometries, and positivity arguments; 3. Further development of models on the disc; 4. Operator analysis on D2; 5. Carathéodory-Julia theory on the disc and the bidisc; 6. Herglotz and Nevanlinna representations in several variables; 7. Model theory on the symmetrized bidisc; 8. Spectral sets: three case studies; 9. Calcular norms; 10. Operator monotone functions; Part II. Non-Commutative Theory: 11. Motivation for non-commutative functions; 12. Basic properties of non-commutative functions; 13. Montel theorems; 14. Free holomorphic functions; 15. The implicit function theorem; 16. Noncommutative functional calculus; Notation.