David Goss | |
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Born | April 20, 1952 |
Died | April 4, 2017 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University University of Michigan |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Ohio State University |
Doctoral advisor | Barry Mazur |
David Mark Goss (April 20, 1952 – April 4, 2017[1]) was a mathematician, a professor in the department of mathematics at Ohio State University,[2] and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Number Theory.[3] He received his B.S. in mathematics in 1973 from University of Michigan[2] and his Ph.D. in 1977 from Harvard University under the supervision of Barry Mazur;[4] prior to Ohio State he held positions at Princeton University, Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, and Brandeis University.[2] He worked on function fields and introduced the Goss zeta function.
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]