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Generalized Vector Spaces. I.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Karl Menger
Karl Menger*
Affiliation:
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
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During the last fifty years, the concept of the Euclidean space (an ndimensional coordinate space with a Pythagorean distance) has undergone various profound generalizations.

Hilbert introduced the infinitely-dimensional Euclidean space whose points are infinite sequences of coordinates having from the origin, and thus from each other, finite Pythagorean distances.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1949 , pp. 94 - 104
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1949

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