Marcel Berger

Marcel Berger
Marcel Berger in 1968
(photo from MFO)
Born
Marcel Yves Marie Joseph Berger

(1927-04-14)14 April 1927
Paris, France
Died15 October 2016(2016-10-15) (aged 89)
Paris, France
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure (Paris)
University of Paris
Known for
AwardsLeconte Prize (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Strasbourg
Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
Paris Diderot University
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
ThesisSur des groupes d'holonomies des variétés riemanniennes et des variétés affinés sans torsion (1954)
Doctoral advisor
André Lichnerowicz
Doctoral students

Marcel Berger (14 April 1927 – 15 October 2016) was a French mathematician, working in the field of differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), France.

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