Multiply two copies of the generating function of the physicists' Hermite polynomials and integrate against . Completing the square gives
Comparing coefficients gives the displayed orthogonality and normalization. Equivalently differentiation in at zero justifies coefficient extraction by the Gaussian integrable bound on compact parameter ranges. Hence the unnormalized Hermite functions have norm . This proves their mutual orthogonality; completeness of that family is an additional assertion.