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| - An important concept in Functional Analysis, Personal spaces were first developed by the famed mathemagician Big Norman, though it is now credited to Cauchy who has proved using Proof by intimidation that it was actually all done by him wearing a different hat. As any slack-jawed yokel knows, Normed Spaces are spaces of thingies equipped with a John Norman novel, or 'Norm'. What fewer slack-jawed yokels know is that this simple definition rarely leads to a Normed space with interesting properties. For example, under this definition the Empty Set, equipped with any fairly primitive norm (such as the Ninety-Five Chapters On How The Blacksmiths Of Gor Make Swords norm), counts as a Normed Space even though it's of no practical use whatsoever, much like Celine Dion. The problem of distinguishing between an interesting Normed Space (such as the famed Scantily-Clad Women Of Gor Bouncing Up And Down Repeatedly Space) and a dull one (such as the stupid, stupid space mentioned earlier) was still stunting the growth of Functional Analysis up until 1903. It was then that mathemagician Big Norman developed the subcategory of Normed spaces known as Personal spaces.
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