Marcel Berger

Marcel Berger
Marcel Berger in 1968 (photo from MFO)
Born	14 April 1927 (1927-04-14) (age 84) Paris
Nationality	France
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Doctoral advisor	André Lichnerowicz
Doctoral students	Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Yves Colin de Verdière François Labourie Pierre Pansu

Marcel Berger (born 14 April 1927) is a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), France. Currently residing in Le Castera in Lasseube, France, Berger was instrumental in Mikhail Gromov's accepting positions both at the University of Paris and at the IHES.^{[citation needed]}

Selected publications

• Berger, M.: Geometry revealed. Springer, 2010.
• Berger, M.: What is... a Systole? Notices of the AMS 55 (2008), no. 3, 374–376.
• Berger, Marcel (2003). A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry. Springer. ISBN 3540653171. http://books.google.com/?id=d_SsagQckaQC. 
• Berger, Marcel (Feb 2000). "Encounter with a Geometer, Part I". Notices of the AMS 47 (2): 183–194. http://www.ams.org/notices/200002/fea-berger.pdf. 
• Berger, Marcel (Mar 2000). "Encounter with a Geometer, Part II". Notices of the AMS 47 (3): 326–340. http://www.ams.org/notices/200003/fea-berger.pdf. 
• Berger, Marcel; Gauduchon, Paul; Mazet, Edmond: Le spectre d'une variété riemannienne. (French) Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 194 Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York 1971.
• Berger, Marcel: Sur les groupes d'holonomie homogène des variétés à connexion affine et des variétés riemanniennes. (French) Bull. Soc. Math. France 83 (1955), 279–330.
• Berger, Marcel: Les espaces symétriques noncompacts. (French) Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (3) 74 1957 85–177.
• Berger, Marcel; Gostiaux, Bernard: Differential geometry: manifolds, curves, and surfaces. Translated from the French by Silvio Levy. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 115. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988. xii+474 pp. ISBN 0-387-96626-9 53-01
• Berger, Marcel: Geometry. II. Translated from the French by M. Cole and S. Levy. Universitext. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987.
• Berger, M.: Les variétés riemanniennes homogènes normales simplement connexes à courbure strictement positive. (French) Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa (3) 15 1961 179–246.
• Berger, Marcel: Geometry. I. Translated from the French by M. Cole and S. Levy. Universitext. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987. xiv+428 pp. ISBN 3-540-11658-3
• Berger, Marcel: Systoles et applications selon Gromov. (French) [Systoles and their applications according to Gromov] Séminaire Bourbaki, Vol. 1992/93. Astérisque No. 216 (1993), Exp. No. 771, 5, 279–310.
• Berger, Marcel: Geometry. I. Translated from the 1977 French original by M. Cole and S. Levy. Corrected reprint of the 1987 translation. Universitext. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994. xiv+427 pp. ISBN 3-540-11658-3
• Berger, Marcel: Riemannian geometry during the second half of the twentieth century. Reprint of the 1998 original. University Lecture Series, 17. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2000. x+182 pp. ISBN 0-8218-2052-4
• Berger, Marcel: A panoramic view of Riemannian geometry. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003. xxiv+824 pp. ISBN 3-540-65317-1

See also

• Arthur Besse
• Berger's inequality for Einstein manifolds
• Berger–Kazdan comparison theorem
• Systolic geometry

External links

• Marcel Berger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/B/Berger_Marcel_bio.htm

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Date of birth	14 April 1927
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