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In this chapter we focus on the study of vector spaces and linear transformations that relate to notions of distance, angle, and orthogonality. We will restrict ourselves throughout to the case of the real field \(\mathbb{R}\) or the complex field \(\mathbb{C}\).
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Fuhrmann, P.A. (2012). Inner Product Spaces. In: A Polynomial Approach to Linear Algebra. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0338-8_7
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