Arthur Besse

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Arthur L. Besse is a pseudonym of a group of French mathematicians, including Marcel Berger .

In particular, they published a monograph on Einstein's manifolds .

Berger and his students organized a workshop on manifolds with closed geodesics in 1975, which took place in Besse-en-Chandesse , from which a book emerged, which they published under the pseudonym Arthur Besse. The first name Arthur alludes to King Arthur's round table (the workshop was announced as Table Ronde by the CNRS ). Following the example of Nicolas Bourbaki , further books and conferences followed, for example on Einstein's manifolds in Espalion in southwest France, from which a well-known book emerged.

The mathematicians involved are listed in the foreword, for example by Einstein Manifolds (there, among others, Hermann Karcher , Jean-Pierre Bourguignon , Geneviève Averous, Nigel Hitchin , Jerry Kazdan , Pierre Pansu , Paul Gauduchon , Dennis DeTurck , Lionel Bérard-Bergery, Andrei Derdzinski, Josette Houillot, Norihito Koiso, Albert Polombo, John A. Thorpe , Jacques Lafontaine, Liane Valère)

Paul Gauduchon organized an Arthur Besse seminar at the École Polytechnique.

In 2008, the group transferred the proceeds from the sale of their books to the European Mathematical Society in support of young mathematicians from the developing world and announced they would put the project to sleep.

Fonts

  • Einstein Manifolds, Springer Verlag 1987, 2nd edition 2008
  • Manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed. Springer Verlag, Results of Mathematics and its Frontier Areas, 1978 (with appendices from DBA Epstein, J.-P. Bourguignon, L. Bérard-Bergery, M. Berger, JL Kazdan)
  • Lionel Bérard-Bergery, Marcel Berger, Christian Houzel Géométrie riemannienne en dimension 4 (Arthur Besse Seminar at the Université de Paris VII, Paris, 1978/1979), Textes Mathématiques, 3rd CEDIC, Paris, 1981
  • Some trends in Riemannian geometry. Duration and change, Springer Verlag, 1994
  • Besse (editor) Actes de la Table Ronde de Géométrie Différentielle. En l'honneur de Marcel Berger. Luminy, July 12-18, 1992 , American Mathematical Society 1996

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