Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
N. Bourbaki [1] was the first to introduce the class of locally convex topological vector spaces called “espaces tonnelés” or “barrelled spaces.” These spaces have some of the important properties of Banach spaces and Fréchet spaces. Indeed, a generalized Banach-Steinhaus theorem is valid for them, although barrelled spaces are not necessarily metrizable. Extensive accounts of the properties of barrelled locally convex topological vector spaces are found in [5] and [8].
Some of these results are contained in the author's Ph.D. thesis written at the University of Virginia under the direction of Professor E. J. McShane.