David Goss

David Goss
David Goss in 1979 (photo by George Bergman)
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Ohio State University
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor	Barry Mazur
Doctoral students	Brian Snyder Zifeng Yang

David Mark Goss (1952-2017) was a mathematician, a professor in the department of mathematics at The Ohio State University, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Number Theory. He received his B.S. in mathematics in 1973 from University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in 1977 from Harvard University under the supervision of Barry Mazur; prior to Ohio State he held positions at Princeton University, Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, and Brandeis University. He worked on function fields and introduced the Goss zeta function.

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