>>11701356Okay, as expected, his work indeed was deep and interesting. I would say he contributed fundamentally to the early development of tensor products related to Banach spaces. I'm wrong in saying his work is completely irrelevant. I can see how the theory of tensor products has been influenced by his work. It explains why I was blissfully unaware of this, the literal theorems he proved are irrelevant to me and also my tensor product knowledge is only deep enough for me to get by. I'm also now more sure of how wrong the following statement is:
>Grothendieck solved all of functional analysis.It is SO far from true. Most Functional Analysis, Banach algebra / operator theory, and Abstract Harmonic Analysis courses will easily avoid Grothendieck's ideas.
