David Goss Explained

David Goss
Birth Date:	April 20, 1952
Death Date:	April 4, 2017
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Ohio State University
Alma Mater:	Harvard University University of Michigan
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]

Selected papers

The algebraist's upper half-plane. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1980. 2. 3. 391–415. 561525. 10.1090/s0273-0979-1980-14751-5. free. Goss. David.
A simple approach to the analytic continuation and values at negative integers for Riemann's zeta function. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.. 1981. 81. 4. 513–517. 601719. 10.1090/s0002-9939-1981-0601719-8. free. Goss. David.
Units and class-groups in the arithmetic theory of function fields. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1985. 13. 2. 131–132. 799794. 10.1090/s0273-0979-1985-15395-9. free. Goss. David.
A formal Mellin transform in the arithmetic of function fields. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.. 1991. 327. 2. 567–582. 1041048. 10.1090/s0002-9947-1991-1041048-5. free. Goss. David.