17南锡Nancy
- The place selected for a problem
- A field still being assembled
- Why Banach spaces were insufficient
- Schwartz’s distributions
- Dieudonné’s demand for a consequential problem
- Fourteen questions, several memories
- Competing dual topologies
- The first published answers
- A seminar that made correction continuous
- Encouragement as an operation
- From problems to a program
- The topology on the probes
- Weak solutions and the reason to enlarge
- Polar sets and geometric duality
- Barrelled spaces: when pointwise control becomes uniform
- Bornological spaces: bounded sets determine continuity
- Fréchet, LF, DF, Montel, Schwartz
- Completion, quasi-completion, and what limits are missing
- Compactness re-enters through operators
- Transposes
- Nancy was built, not discovered
- Laurent Schwartz in 1949
- Jean Dieudonné in 1949
- Fellow students and the removal of exceptionalism
- The problem list as a pedagogical technology
- A famous story examined
- CNRS support and the category “researcher”
- The first notes as a public style
- Hanka in Nancy
- A different meaning of independence
- Toward the tensor question
- The theorem and the counterexample
- Open mapping as a test case
- Reading the first papers forward, not backward
- Recognition becomes responsibility
- Spring 1951