David Goss

Summary

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)
BornApril 20, 1952
DiedApril 4, 2017
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
University of Michigan
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsOhio State University
Doctoral advisorBarry Mazur

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

Books edit

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

Selected papers edit

  • Goss, David (1980). "The algebraist's upper half-plane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 2 (3): 391–415. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1980-14751-5. MR 0561525.
  • Goss, David (1981). "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. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1981-0601719-8. MR 0601719.
  • Goss, David (1985). "Units and class-groups in the arithmetic theory of function fields". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 13 (2): 131–132. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1985-15395-9. MR 0799794.
  • Goss, David (1991). "A formal Mellin transform in the arithmetic of function fields". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 327 (2): 567–582. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1991-1041048-5. MR 1041048.

References edit

  1. ^ "David Mark Goss's Obituary on The Columbus Dispatch". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  2. ^ a b c 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 edit

  • Home page Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine of David Goss
  • David Goss on MathSciNet