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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
• CommentTimeDec 15th 2009

I've started a page an elementary treatment of Hilbert spaces. The intention is to see how much of (simple) Hilbert space theory can be done without using the phrases "As a Hilbert space is a normed vector space ..." or "As a Hilbert space is a metric space ...".

I haven't gotten very far yet, as can be seen! Also, it's not intended to be Deep Mathematics (there's a mild centipedal justification on the page) but just playing with some ideas and trying to see what a Hilbert space really is.

• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeDec 15th 2009

I slightly Lab-elved the page, editing the toc and insering some links

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
• CommentTimeDec 15th 2009

Thanks!

I should have said: I hope that this is okay for the n-lab.

• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeDec 15th 2009
This comment is invalid XHTML+MathML+SVG; displaying source. <div> <blockquote> I hope that this is okay for the n-lab. </blockquote> <p>Most certainly. Why are you worried?</p> </div>
• CommentRowNumber5.
• CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
• CommentTimeDec 15th 2009

It didn't have an 'n' in it!

I wasn't particularly worried, otherwise I would have asked before I started writing, but I suffer from the British disease of always worrying that I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time.

• CommentRowNumber6.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeDec 15th 2009

Well, I think thi stuff is very good. It doesn't need to have an n in it to be part of the nLab.

• CommentRowNumber7.
• CommentAuthorTobyBartels
• CommentTimeDec 15th 2009

Yeah, you just have to accept that we'll start remarking on what strength of logic your elementary treatment requires and which categories it can be internalised in, stuff like that.

• CommentRowNumber8.
• CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
• CommentTimeDec 18th 2009