Marcel Berger

Marcel Berger
Marcel Berger
	Marcel Berger in 1968; (photo from MFO)
Born	Marcel Yves Marie Joseph Berger; 14 April 1927; Paris, France
Died	15 October 2016 (aged 89); Paris, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École normale supérieure (Paris); University of Paris
Known for	Berger–Kazdan comparison theorem; Berger classification; Berger's sphere; Berger's inequality for Einstein manifolds;
Awards	Leconte Prize (1978)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Strasbourg; Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis; Paris Diderot University; Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Thesis	Sur des groupes d'holonomies des variétés riemanniennes et des variétés affinés sans torsion (1954)
Doctoral advisor	André Lichnerowicz
Doctoral students	Jean-Pierre Bourguignon; Yves Colin de Verdière; Sylvestre Gallot; Dominique Hulin; François Labourie; Pierre Pansu;

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.

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