We introduce inner product spaces. After proving the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality we show that any inner product induces a norm and that the norm then satisfies the parallelogram identity. We show that the inner product can be recovered from the induced norm (via the polarisation identity). We define Hilbert spaces as complete inner product spaces and show that the spaces l^2 and L^2 are Hilbert spaces.
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