Maurice Godefroy

Maurice Godefroy was a French mathematical writer born in 1872 and deceased in 1971. Surviving catalog and public-domain records confirm him as the author of works including La Fonction Gamma: Théorie, Histoire, Bibliographie and Mathématiques générales: synthèse élémentaire.

A contemporary mathematical notice for La Fonction Gamma identifies him as a librarian at the Faculty of Sciences in Marseille, which helps explain the orderly, reference-minded character of his writing. His books combine explanation, overview, and bibliography, suggesting a writer interested not only in formulas themselves but also in how mathematical ideas developed and how readers could study them further.

Today, Godefroy is remembered mainly through these specialized yet accessible texts, which offer a glimpse of how higher mathematics was presented to French readers in the early 1900s. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found during this search, so none is included here.