Lucien Godeaux (1887–1975) was a prolific Belgian mathematician. His total of more than 1000 papers and books, 669 of which are found in Mathematical Reviews, made him one of the most published mathematicians.[1] He was the sole author of all but one of his papers.[2]

He is best remembered for work in algebraic geometry. From Liège, he was attracted to the work of the Italian school of algebraic geometry by the work of one of its masters, Federigo Enriques. Godeaux went to Bologna to study with him. The Godeaux surface is a construction of a special type, which has subsequently been much studied.

Since 2007, the Belgian Mathematical Society (BMS) is organising a "Godeaux lecture" in his memory.

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  1. ^ https://www.ams.org/notices/200501/fea-grossman.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2007.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).
  3. ^ Tracey, J. I. (1934). "Review: Leçons de Géométrie Projective by L. Godeaux" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (70): 520–521. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1934-05886-5.
  4. ^ Snyder, Virgil (1934). "Review: Questions non résolues de Géométrie Algébrique by L. Godeaux" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (7): 519–520. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1934-05882-8.
  5. ^ Snyder, Virgil (1935). "Review: Les Surfaces Algébriques non Rationnelles de Genres Arithmétique et Géométrique Nuls by Lucien Godeaux" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (3): 170–171. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1935-06053-7.
  6. ^ Snyder, Virgil (1934). "Review: La Théorie des Surfaces et l'Espace Réglé (Géométrie Projective Différentielle) by L. Godeaux" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (1, Part 2): 14–15. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1935-06028-8.
  7. ^ Snyder, Virgil (1936). "Review: Les Involutions Cycliques Appartenant à une Surface Algébrique by L. Godeaux" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (11): 797–798. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1936-06445-1.
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