Lucien Godeaux

Lucien Auguste Godeaux ( born October 11, 1887 in Morlanwelz, † April 21, 1975 in Liège ) was a Belgian mathematician.

Godeaux visited the Athenaeum in Ath and studied for a year at the Mining Academy ( Ecole des Mines ) in Bergen before he math and science studies at the University of Liège with the Promotion, 1911. With a scholarship he then attended the University of Bologna (with Federigo Enriques ) Göttingen and Paris ( with Emile Picard ). In 1914 he was back in Belgium and taught after completing the voluntary military service in the artillery at the Royal Military Academy. In 1920 he became associate professor and in 1925 professor at the University of Liège. In 1958 he became Professor Emeritus.

He dealt particularly with algebraic geometry and was here by the Italian school ( Federigo Enriques, etc.) affected. In particular, he developed the theory of involutions on algebraic surfaces and special algebraic surfaces are named after him. He wrote over 1200 publications and several textbooks. Another area was projective differential geometry. He also dealt with the history of mathematics in Belgium.

In 1921 he founded the Belgian Mathematical Society with Théophile de Donder and Alfred Errera. From its founding in 1948 to 1966 he was Chairman of the Belgian Centrum voor Onderzoek Wiskundig ( Belgian Centre for Mathematical Research). He was chairman of the Belgian National Committee for Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Sciences of Liege. He was a member of the Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian and Polish mathematical societies and member of the academies of Padua, Bucharest, Lima, Milan and Bordeaux.

In 1940 he won the Poncelet Prize of the Institut de France in 1950 prijs voor Tienjaarlijkse wiskunde. He was an honorary Doctorate in Bourdeaux, Brussels, Clermont- Ferrand, Rijsel, Aix -Marseille, Dijon and Bologne.

Writings

  • Les transformations du plan birationnelles, 1927
  • La Géométrie, 1931
  • Leçons de géométrie projective, Paris: Hermann 1933
  • Questions non résolues de géométrie algébrique: les involutional de l' espace et les variétés algébriques à trois dimensions, 1933
  • Les surfaces algébriques non ratio sional de genres arithmétique et géométrique nuls, Paris: Hermann 1934
  • La théorie des surfaces et l' espace Regulations ( géométrie projective différentielle ), 1934
  • Les transformations de l' espace birationnelles, 1934
  • Les involution cycliques appartenant à une surface algébrique, Paris: Hermann 1935
  • Les Geometries, Paris: A. Colin, 1937
  • Observations sur les variétés algébraiques à trois dimensions sur lesquelles l' opération d' adjonction est périodique, 1940
  • Sur la structure des points unis of homographies cycliques you plan, Brussels Palais des académies 1941
  • Introduction à la géométrie supérieure, 1946
  • Analysis mathématique, 1946
  • Les Geometries cayleyennes et les univers d' Einstein et de De Sitter, Liege 1947
  • Geometry tools algébrique, 2 volumes, Liege: Sciences et Lettres in 1948, 1949 ( Volume 1: Transformations birationnelles et géométrie hyperespatielle, Volume 2: Geometry tools sur une courbe algébrique you plan)
  • Correspondences entre deux courbes algébriques, Paris: Gauthier -Villars 1949
  • Leçons de geometry Analytique à trois dimensions
  • Outline of a Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques de Belgique, Brussels: Office de publicité, 1943 (60 pages )
  • Théorie des involution cycliques appartenant à une surface algébrique et applications, Rome: Ed. Cremonese 1963
  • La géométrie différentielle des surfaces dans l' espace considérées Regulations, Brussels 1964
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