Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2017/ii/paper-1/21f/c/solution

Take , which is a Banach space by the completeness of the dual just proved. The canonical embedding into the bidual is
For fixed this is a bounded linear functional on , since , and is linear in . This gives . For , the norming functional from the Hahn-Banach theorem has and , giving the reverse inequality. At zero equality is immediate. Thus
In particular is injective and isometric. If a dense isometric embedding is wanted, rather than merely the stated embedding, take the norm closure of in ; a closed subspace of a Banach space is complete and supplies a completion of a normed space.

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