Cauchy-Schwarz on a Euclidian Space

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I was thinking about this proof of the cauchy-schwarz inequality,

I wanna show that $$|\langle u,v\rangle|\leq|u||v|$$.

We know that,

$$|\langle u,v\rangle| = ||u||v|\cos{\theta}|$$ where $\theta$ is the angle between $u$ and $v$.

But $-1 \leq \cos{\theta} \leq 1$, so, $$0\leq|\langle u,v\rangle|\leq|u||v|$$ where the equality holds if and only if $|\cos{\theta}|=1$, that is, $u$ and $v$ are linearly dependent.

This is correct? For which spaces? Only for $\mathbb{R^n}$?

Thanks :]