“The present book … can be considered as an advanced book including important notions, results and methods from analysis and geometry. … We consider that the book is an excellent pedagogical work, containing the essential elements of Variational Calculus. It is addressed to advanced students and researchers in the field.” (Gheorghe Moroşanu, zbMATH 1505.49002, 2023)
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Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is the Nicolaas Kuiper Honorary Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, where he was director from 1994 to 2013. His research interests are in differential geometry, in particular its relations with partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He was president of the Société Mathématique de France (1990–1992) and of the European Mathematical Society (1995–1998). He received the Paul Langevin prize from the Académie des Sciences de Paris in 1987 and the Physical Sciences and Mathematics Prize from the Comité du Rayonnement Français in 1997.