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Norm

[ilmath]\Vert\cdot\Vert:V\rightarrow\mathbb{R} [/ilmath] Where [ilmath]V[/ilmath] is a vector space over the field [ilmath]\mathbb{R} [/ilmath] or [ilmath]\mathbb{C} [/ilmath]

A norm is a an abstraction of the notion of the "length of a vector". Every norm is a metric and every inner product is a norm (see Subtypes of topological spaces for more information), thus every normed vector space is a topological space to, so all the topology theorems apply. Norms are especially useful in functional analysis and also for differentiation.