A Proof of the Mazur-Ulam Theorem (Q4469207)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2074174
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2074174 |
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A Proof of the Mazur-Ulam Theorem (English)
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14 June 2004
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Mazur-Ulam theorem
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The author gives a short and slick proof of the Mazur-Ulam theorem saying that a distance preserving surjection between normed spaces is affine. The key idea is to use reflection maps \(\psi_z(x)= 2z-x\) in a clever way.
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