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To Professor Arieh Dvoretzky, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, with my deepest respect

Supported in part by G.I.F. Grant. This lecture was given in June 1991 at the Jerusalem Conference on Banach Spaces, and written while the author visited IHES in the summer of 1991.

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Milman, V. Dvoretzky's theorem — Thirty years later. Geometric and Functional Analysis 2, 455–479 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01896663

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