Essay on Kashin's Remarkable 1977 Decomposition Theorem

V. D. Milman

Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Approximation Theory, Functional Analysis, and Applications, Tome 319 (2022), pp. 213-222.

Résumé

We recall the classical result by B. S. Kashin from 1977 and discuss its impact and consequences from a present time perspective.

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