[FOM] Banach spaces

[Timothy Y. Chow]

Timothy Gowers asks a very interesting question about whether there is a 
theory of "easily described" Banach spaces which are necessarily nicely 
behaved (e.g., they must have some l_p or c_0 subspace).  The intuition
is that the "nasty" counterexamples in Banach space theory seem to have
norms that are hard to compute.  For more details, go to

  http://tinyurl.com/banach

and scroll down to Gowers's post on February 9, 2009, at 10:47 p.m.

Tim