By weakly convergent sequence is bounded, is finite. Choose any . Once have been chosen, put . Since is fixed, weak convergence to zero gives . Choose with . This gives the required one-sided inequality as well.
The useful estimate is for the squared norm. Indeed, , and the inner product expansion gives
By mathematical induction, . Hence
This proves norm convergence of the averages, the weak Banach–Saks theorem in a Hilbert space. The printed inequality omits the square on its left side. Our stronger estimate also proves that printed bound, since for , but the printed bound alone only bounds the averages and cannot imply their norm convergence to zero.
The Uniform boundedness principle states that if is a Banach space and a family of bounded linear operators is pointwise bounded, then .
Suppose in the normed vector space . For each , define the evaluation functional
The completeness of the dual space says that is Banach even when is not. For each , the scalar sequence converges to and is therefore bounded. Uniform boundedness gives
By the canonical embedding into the bidual and the Hahn-Banach theorem, . Hence
which proves that a weakly convergent sequence is bounded.