David Goss

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.

David Goss
David Goss in 1979 (photo by George Bergman)
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

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Books

• Goss, David (1996), Basic structures of function field arithmetic, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (3) [Results in Mathematics and Related Areas (3)], 35, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-61087-8, MR 1423131

Selected papers

• "The algebraist's upper half-plane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 2 (3): 391–415. 1980. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1980-14751-5. MR 0561525.
• "A simple approach to the analytic continuation and values at negative integers for Riemann's zeta function". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (4): 513–517. 1981. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1981-0601719-8. MR 0601719.
• "Units and class-groups in the arithmetic theory of function fields". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 13 (2): 131–132. 1985. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1985-15395-9. MR 0799794.
• "A formal Mellin transform in the arithmetic of function fields". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 327 (2): 567–582. 1991. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1991-1041048-5. MR 1041048.

References

1. "David Mark Goss's Obituary on The Columbus Dispatch". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
2. OSU Faculty Profile Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine.
3. Journal of Number Theory home page.
4. David Goss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.

External links

• Home page of David Goss
• David Goss on MathSciNet