David Mark Goss is a mathematician, a professor in the department of mathematics at The Ohio State University

Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...

, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Number Theory

Journal of Number Theory

The Journal of Number Theory , often abbreviated J. Number Theory or J. Num. Th. in bibliographies, is a mathematics journal that publishes a broad spectrum of original research in number theory. The journal was founded in 1969 by R.P. Bambah, P. Roquette, A. Ross, A. Woods, and H. Zassenhaus,...

. He received his B.S. in mathematics in 1973 from University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 and his Ph.D. in 1977 from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 under the supervision of Barry Mazur

Barry Mazur

-Life:Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959,...

; prior to Ohio State he held positions at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

, and Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

. He works on function fields and introduced the Goss zeta function

Goss zeta function

In the field of mathematics, the Goss zeta function, named after David Goss, is an analogue of the Riemann zeta function for function fields. proved that it satisfies an analogue of the Riemann hypothesis....

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External links

• Home page of David Goss