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This chapter deals mainly with the geometry of (primarily abstract) Hilbert spaces. In Chapter 5, Hilbert space theory is combined with distribution theory to establish the theory of L 2 spaces, on which much of modern functional analysis is based.

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Richtmyer, R.D. (1978). Hilbert Spaces. In: Principles of Advanced Mathematical Physics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46378-5_1

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