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David Goss in 1979
(photo by George Bergman) |
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| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Ohio State University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Barry Mazur |
| Doctoral students | Brian Snyder Zifeng Yang |
David Mark Goss is a mathematician, a professor in the department of mathematics at The Ohio State University,[1] and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Number Theory.[2] He received his B.S. in mathematics in 1973 from University of Michigan[1] and his Ph.D. in 1977 from Harvard University under the supervision of Barry Mazur;[3] prior to Ohio State he held positions at Princeton University, Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, and Brandeis University.[1] He works on function fields and introduced the Goss zeta function.