Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Complete inner product space


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The result was   redirect to Hilbert space. Kevin (talk) 00:18, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Complete inner product space

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The article seems to be about the theorem that the quaternions form a complete inner product space. It may be that something can be said about complete inner product spaces, but this isn't even a part of it. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:07, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Replace with redirect to Hilbert space. A complete inner product space (in the sense that is nearly universally accepted throughout mathematics) is a Hilbert space.  This article is an extremely confused take on things.   Sławomir Biały  (talk) 16:52, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Hilbert space, possibly after moving this article to a more appropriate title and rewriting it. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:44, 5 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment. Concur with redirect, and the reference doesn't support the statement about quaternions, even if I could figure out what it was.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 23:19, 5 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: To be fair, the book given as a reference does use the term 'Complete inner product space' instead of 'Hilbert space'. It should be up to the person creating the article to do the research to ensure that the subject is not merely another name for the subject of an existing article. Variations in terminology occur surprisingly often in mathematics so using a single source as a reference, which seems to have been done here, is generally something to be avoided.--RDBury (talk) 05:46, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Hilbert space, which means the same thing. --Zundark (talk) 13:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
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