Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2019 / ii / Paper 3 / 21H / d / Solution

Let $x,y\in {\ell }^2$ satisfy $\Vert x{\Vert }_2=\Vert y{\Vert }_2=1$. The parallelogram law givesIf $\Vert x-y{\Vert }_2\ge \epsilon$, thenand thereforeThis depends only on $\epsilon$, so the l2 sequence space is a uniformly convex Banach space, as asserted by the uniform convexity of l2.