David Mark Goss (April 20, 1952 – April 4, 2017) was a mathematician, a professor in the department of mathematics at 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. Books Selected papers References External links Home page of David Goss David Goss on MathSciNet 1952 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Harvard University alumni Princeton University faculty Harvard University faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty Brandeis University faculty Ohio State University faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society