Definition:Inner Product/Also Known as

Also known as
Let $V$ be a vector space over a field $\GF$ that is a subfield of $\R$ or $\C$.

Let $\innerprod \cdot \cdot: V \times V \to \GF$ be an inner product on $\GF$.

Some texts refer to $\innerprod \cdot \cdot$ as a scalar product

As this term is disambiguous, it is not used by.

Some texts refer to $\innerprod \cdot \cdot$ as an innerproduct.