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	(1952-04-20)April 20, 1952
Died	April 4, 2017(2017-04-04) (aged 64)
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)], vol. 35, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-61087-8, MR 1423131

Selected papers

• 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.