OF THE FIXED POINT PROPERTY
Universidad de M\'alaga
Facultad de Ciencias
29071 M\'alaga. Spain
Dept. An\'alisis Matem\'atico
Facultad de Matem\'aticas
46100 Burjassot. Valencia. Spain
Our main result shows that a Banach space Y has the fixed point property whenever the Banach-Mazur distance from Y to a Hilbert space is less than .