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Recent Results in the Theory of Infinite-Dimensional Banach Spaces

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Many of the best-known questions about separable infinite-dimensional Banach spaces are of at least one of the following forms.

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    W. T. Gowers

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    S. D. Chatterji

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Gowers, W.T. (1995). Recent Results in the Theory of Infinite-Dimensional Banach Spaces. In: Chatterji, S.D. (eds) Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_86

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