Abstract
We investigate possible quantifications of the Banach-Saks property and the weak Banach-Saks property. We prove quantitative versions of relationships of the Banach-Saks property of a set with norm compactness and weak compactness.
We further establish a quantitative version of the characterization of the weak Banach-Saks property of a set using uniform weak convergence and l(1)-spreading models. We also study the case of the unit ball and in this case we prove a dichotomy which is an analogue of the James distortion theorem for l(1)-spreading models.