Timeline for Least collaborative mathematician
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 12, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | Per Alexandersson | I wonder if he also has most pages as single author... I see several 5-7-pages papers om MathSciNet. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 8:07 | comment | added | Denis Serre | En attendant Godeaux ... | |
| Aug 16, 2013 at 0:35 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I guess all the would-be co-authors got tired of waiting for Godeaux. | |
| Jun 22, 2010 at 8:52 | comment | added | GS | Here's a way to get mathscinet to give an idea of Godeaux's influence: searching for papers with "Godeaux" in the title gives 34 hits, and searching for papers with "Godeaux" anywhere gives 856, so subtracting his 682 papers gives 174 papers with "Godeaux" in one of the mathscinet searchable fields. | |
| Jun 22, 2010 at 0:35 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Godeaux's sole coauthor has no other publications in Math Reviews - Godeaux has no Erd\"os number. | |
| Jun 22, 2010 at 0:15 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | Greg, there are well-known results of Godeaux in birational geometry of surfaces. On the other hand, since you are so worried about citations, check out author="Riemann, B*" on MathSciNet. You may be in for a shock! | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 19:27 | comment | added | JS Milne | Greg, MathSciNet only lists citations after about 1997. For example, they list only 16 citations from references for Weil's Foundations of Algebraic Geometry, the earliest of which is 1997. | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 19:06 | comment | added | Greg Kuperberg | I can't help but feel that this record is somehow pathological if he had so few citations. To have someone work so hard and yet attract so little attention is bizarre. I would be interested in a more complete explanation of how it happened. | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 18:36 | comment | added | Ben Green | His wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Godeaux | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 18:35 | comment | added | Andy Putman | It's apparently even more impressive than that! The article MR1321036 is a biography of Godeaux. I don't have access to the article, but according to the review he lived from 1887-1975, wrote 1072 articles and 41 books and "courses" (I guess those are unpublished course notes?), but only has been cited or referred to in 17 papers. | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 18:35 | comment | added | Ben Green | This is extraordinary! It looks like he kept the Belgian journals in business single-handed..... | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 18:34 | vote | accept | Ben Green | ||
| Jun 21, 2010 at 18:32 | comment | added | Felipe Voloch | I never read any of his papers, so I am not sure. They seem to be about specific classes of algebraic varieties with obscure properties and perhaps only he cared about them. | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 18:16 | comment | added | Greg Kuperberg | How did he have so many papers with so few citations? Were they very rote papers? | |
| Jun 21, 2010 at 18:01 | history | answered | Felipe Voloch | CC BY-SA 2.5 |