The notion of an invariant subspace is fundamental to the subject of operator theory. Given a linear operator T on a Banach space X, a closed subspace M of X is said to be a non-trivial invariant subspace for T if T (M) ⊆M and M 6= {0}, X. This generalizes the idea of eigenspaces of n×n matrices. A famous unsolved problem, called the “invariant subspace problem,” asks whether every bounded line...