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Hil·bert space | \ ˈhil-bərt- 
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\Definition of Hilbert space
: a vector space for which a scalar product is defined and in which every Cauchy sequence composed of elements in the space converges to a limit in the space
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The first known use of Hilbert space was in 1911
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