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parallelogram law (Theorem)
Theorem 1   In an inner product space, let $x$ and $y$ be vectors. Then $$ \Vert x + y \Vert ^ 2 + \Vert x - y \Vert ^2 = 2 \Vert x \Vert ^ 2 + 2 \Vert y \Vert ^ 2.$$




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See Also: parallelogram law, generalization of the parallelogram law


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AMS MSC46C05 (Functional analysis :: Inner product spaces and their generalizations, Hilbert spaces :: Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology )

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