David Archibald Cox (born September 23, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American mathematician, working in

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

. Cox graduated from Rice University with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and his Ph.D. in 1975 at Princeton University, under the supervision of Eric Friedlander (''Tubular Neighborhoods in the Etale Topology''). From 1974 to 1975, he was assistant professor at

Haverford College Haverford College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), began accepting non-Quakers in 1849, and became coeducational ...

and at Rutgers University from 1975 to 1979. In 1979, he became assistant professor and in 1988 professor at

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

. He studies, among other things, étale homotopy theory,

elliptic surface In mathematics, an elliptic surface is a surface that has an elliptic fibration, in other words a proper morphism with connected fibers to an algebraic curve such that almost all fibers are smooth curves of genus 1. (Over an algebraically closed ...

s, computer-based algebraic geometry (such as Gröbner basis), Torelli sets and toric varieties, and history of mathematics. He is also known for several textbooks. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. From 1987 to 1988 he was a guest professor at Oklahoma State University. In 2012, he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award for ''Why Eisenstein Proved the Eisenstein Criterion and Why Schönemann Discovered It First''.

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* With John Little,

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: ''Ideals, varieties, and algorithms: an introduction to computational algebraic geometry and commutative algebra'', 3rd. edition, Springer Verlag 2007 * David A. Cox, John Little, and

: ''Using algebraic geometry'', 2nd. edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 185, Springer-Verlag, 2005. * With

Sheldon Katz Sheldon H. Katz (19 December 1956, Brooklyn) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and its applications to string theory. Background and Career In 1973 Katz won first prize in the United States of America Mathematical Ol ...

: ''Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry'', American Mathematical Society 1999 * ''Galois Theory'', Wiley/Interscience 2004 * With Bernd Sturmfels, Dinesh Manocha (eds.) ''Applications of computational algebraic geometry'', American Mathematical Society 1998 * Primes of the form

x^2 + n \cdot y^2

: Fermat, class field theory, and complex multiplication, Wiley 1989 * With John Little, Henry Schenck: ''Toric Varieties'', American Mathematical Society 2011 * Contributions to Ernst Kunz ''Residues and duality for projective algebraic varieties'', American Mathematical Society 2008 *

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