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In this chapter we introduce a number of fundamental structures in general spaces: topology, metric, norm, and scalar product. They are the natural generalizations of the corresponding concepts in the Euclidean space ℝn.
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Alt, H.W. (2016). Preliminaries. In: Linear Functional Analysis. Universitext. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7280-2_2
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