Jim Agler is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He received the G. de B. Robinson award from the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2016 and delivered the 2017 London Mathematical Society Invited Lectures. He is the co-author of Pick Interpolation and Hilbert Function Spaces (2002). John Edward McCarthy is the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University, St Louis, and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He received the G. de B. Robinson award from the Canadian Mathematical Society (2016) and was co-author of Pick Interpolation and Hilbert Function Spaces (2002). Nicholas John Young is Research Professor at Leeds University and Senior Research Investigator at University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of An Introduction to Hilbert Space (Cambridge, 1988) and approximately 100 research articles in analysis.

'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.