you know, this geometric measure theory book by h. federer isn't so bad. before, i've heard complaints about it and made my own complaints about it.
admittedly, the book is immense,
the generality is somewhat overwhelming,
and i wouldn't want to learn gmt for the first time by reading it,
but it's useful.
then again, i will probably continue my complaints, in years to come. the odds are good, at any rate: this blog isn't called "the (Frustrated) Over-Analyst" for nothing, you know!
i might even try and read some of gmt carefully, one day. lately i've told people that i study gmt, but i don't know if that's really an honest thing to say.
fraudulence seems to be an easy feeling for me: i might say that i study the analysis on metric spaces, but a moment later i realise that i don't know cheeger's GAFA paper so well,
or the Acta papers of heinonen & koskela, and of ambrosio & kirchheim,
or sobolev met poincaré by hajłasz and koskela,
and so on.
i know that i am some kind of mathematician, but i don't know exactly what kind anymore.
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