 Canonical embedding into the bidual (source code)

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= Canonical embedding into the bidual

For a normed space $X$, the map $J:X\to X''$ defined by
$$
(Jx)(f)=f(x)
$$
is a linear isometry. The easy inequality is $\|Jx\|\leq\|x\|$; Hahn--Banach extends the norm-one functional on $\operatorname{span}\{x\}$ that takes $x$ to $\|x\|$, proving the reverse inequality.

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