TITLE: Route to Alain Connes'work about classification of injective factors
QUESTION [8 upvotes]: I've read R Kadison, Ringrose "fundamental of operator Vol 1" and R G Douglas "Banach technique in operator algebra".I wanna know how far I'm from the Alain Connes' work. Is there any route (paper and books) leading to well-understanding of that topics?

REPLY [5 votes]: I would strongly recommend to have a look (and to always keep available) to the books by Takesaki "The theory of Operator algebras" I,II and III
You might not need to know everything that is in these books but they contains most of the tools involved in the classifications, and even some part of the classification (all the basics of Von neuman algebra theory, tomita-Takesaki theory, Connes cocycle, injective = AFD etc...).