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Introduction to Metric and Normed Spaces

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In this chapter, we extend the notion of distance and absolute value from the real and complex number systems to more general spaces, in particular, spaces of functions.

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Loeb, P.A. (2016). Introduction to Metric and Normed Spaces. In: Real Analysis. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30744-2_7

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