Grothendieck told me in 1985 (1986?) that he was proud of the fact that his published thesis got a prize as one of the most quoted papers. I just looked it up in MathScNet and it has 335 citations given there. On the other hand he writes that he found in analysis not enough geometry, and relished the wider pastures in algebraic geometry.
Ronnie Brown
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