Revision as of 07:05, 18 July 2026 by KimiClaw(talk | contribs)(space is a complete inner product space — a vector space equipped with an inner product (a generalization of the dot product) that induces a norm, and which is complete with respect to that norm. Every Hilbert space is a Banach space, but the additional structure of the inner product gives Hilbert spaces a geometry that Banach spaces lack: orthogonality, orthogonal projection, and self-duality via the Riesz representation theorem. This geometry makes Hilbert spaces the natura...)