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For a Banach space $X$ we shall denote the set of all closed subspaces of $X$ by $G(X)$. In some kinds of problems it turned out to be useful to endow $G(X)$ with a topology. The main purpose of the present paper is to survey results on two the most common topologies on $G(X)$.
It is an English translation of the paper originally published in Russian and Ukrainian in 1987. In the appendix of his book S.Banach introduced the following definition Let $X$ be a Banach space and $Γ$ be a subspace of the dual space $X^*$. The set of all limits of $w^{*}$-convergent sequences in $Γ$ is called the $w^*${\it -derived set} of $Γ$ and is denoted by $Γ_{(1)}$. For an ordinal $α$ the $w^{*}$-{\it derived set of order} $α$ is defined inductively by the equality: $$ Γ_{(α)}=\bigcup _{β<α}((Γ_{(β)})_{(1)}. $$
The main result: the dual of separable Banach space $X$ contains a total subspace which is not norming over any infinite dimensional subspace of $X$ if and only if $X$ has a nonquasireflexive quotient space with the strictly singular quotient mapping.
The condition onto pair ($F,G$) of function Banach spaces under which there exists a integral operator $T:F\to G$ with analytic kernel such that the inverse mapping $T^{-1}:$im$T\to F$ does not belong to arbitrary a priori given Borel (or Baire) class is found.
If a separable Banach space $X$ is such that for some nonquasireflexive Banach space $Y$ there exists a surjective strictly singular operator $T:X\to Y$ then for every countable ordinal $α$ the dual of $X$ contains a subspace whose weak$^*$ sequential closures of orders less than $α$ are not norming over any infinite-dimensional subspace of $X$ and whose weak$^*$ sequential closure of order $α+1$ coincides with $X^*$