Marcel Berger (14 April 1927 – 15 October 2016) was a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), France. Formerly residing in Le Castera in Lasseube, Berger was instrumental in Mikhail Gromov's accepting positions both at the University of Paris and at the IHÉS.
Awards and honors
1956 Prix Peccot, Collège de France1962 Prix Maurice Audin1969 Prix Carrière, Académie des Sciences1978 Prix Leconte, Académie des Sciences1979 Prix Gaston Julia1979–1980 President of the French Mathematical Society.1991 Lester R. Ford AwardBerger, M.: Geometry revealed. Springer, 2010.Berger, M.: What is... a Systole? Notices of the AMS 55 (2008), no. 3, 374–376. online textBerger, Marcel (2003). A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-65317-1 xxiv+824 pp. Berger, Marcel (Feb 2000). "Encounter with a Geometer, Part I" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 47 (2): 183–194. Berger, Marcel (Mar 2000). "Encounter with a Geometer, Part II" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 47 (3): 326–340. 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 0-387-96626-9Berger, 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 3-540-11658-3Berger, 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 3-540-11658-3Berger, 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 0-8218-2052-4Besse, A.L.: Einstein Manifolds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987. ISBN 0-387-15279-2
