Arthur Besse is a

pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...

chosen by a group of French

differential geometers Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multil ...

, led by

Marcel Berger 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 Las ...

, following the model of

Nicolas Bourbaki Nicolas Bourbaki () is the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, predominantly French alumni of the École normale supérieure (Paris), École normale supérieure - PSL (ENS). Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally in ...

. A number of monographs have appeared under the name.

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* ** *Actes de la Table Ronde de Géométrie Différentielle. roceedings of the Roundtable on Differential GeometryEn l'honneur de Marcel Berger. n honor of Marcel BergerHeld in Luminy, July 12–18, 1992. Edited by Arthur L. Besse. Séminaires et Congrès eminars and Congresses 1. Société Mathématique de France, Paris; distributed by American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1996. *Besse, Arthur L.: Some trends in Riemannian geometry. Duration and change, 71–105, Springer, Berlin, 1994 . *Besse, A. Многообразия Эйнштейна. Том I,II. (Russian) instein manifolds. Vol. I, IITranslated from the English and with a preface by D. V. Alekseevskiĭ. "Mir", Moscow, 1990. Vol. I: 320 pp.; Vol. II: pp. 321–704. *Besse, Arthur L.: Einstein manifolds. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (3) esults in Mathematics and Related Areas (3) 10. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987 . *Четырехмерная риманова геометрия. (Russian) iemannian geometry in dimension 4Семинар Артура Бессе 1978/79. he Arthur Besse seminar 1978/79Translated from the French by G. B. Shabat. Translation edited by A. N. Tyurin. "Mir", Moscow, 1985. *Géométrie riemannienne en dimension 4. (French) iemannian geometry in dimension 4Papers from the Arthur Besse seminar held at the Université de Paris VII, Paris, 1978/1979. Edited by Lionel Bérard-Bergery, Marcel Berger and Christian Houzel. Textes Mathématiques athematical Texts 3. CEDIC, Paris, 1981. *Besse, Arthur L. Многообразия с замкнутыми геодезическими. (Russian) anifolds all of whose geodesics are closedTranslated from the English by Yu. S. Osipov, I. D. Novikov and Yu. P. Solovʹev. Edited and with a preface by Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich Alekseev. "Mir", Moscow, 1981. *Besse, Arthur L. Manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed. With appendices by D. B. A. Epstein, J.-P. Bourguignon, L. Bérard-Bergery, M. Berger and J. L. Kazdan. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete esults in Mathematics and Related Areas 93. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1978, .

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