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[For part III see the preceding review, Zbl 0918.46023.] Generalizing von Neumann's parallelogram identity for inner product spaces, the main result proved by the author is the following: Theorem: Suppose \(X\) is a normed linear space and \(f: \mathbb{R}^+\to\mathbb{R}\) be continuous and satisfy the functional equation \[ \sum^n_{i=1} f(\| x_i- \overline x\|^r)= \sum^n_{i=1} f(\| x_i\|^r)- nf(\|\overline x\|^r), \] where \(r= 1\) or 2, \(n\geq 2\), \(\overline x= {x_1+ x_2+\cdots+ x_n\over n}\) and \(\mathbb{R}^+\) is the space of nonnegative reals. Then \(X\) is an inner product space. [For part III see the review below]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0882.00018].