Marcel Berger

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Marcel Berger (born 1927) is a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes 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]}

[edit] Selected publications

• 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. 
• Berger, Marcel (Feb 2000). "Encounter with a Geometer, Part I". Notices of the AMS 47 (2): 183–194. 
• Berger, Marcel (Mar 2000). "Encounter with a Geometer, Part II". Notices of the AMS 47 (3): 326–340. 

[edit] See also

• Berger's inequality for Einstein manifolds
• Berger-Kazdan comparison theorem
• Systolic geometry