David Archibald Cox (born September 23, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American mathematician, working in algebraic geometry.
Cox graduated from Rice University when a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and his Ph.D. in 1975 at Princeton University, under the direction of Eric Friedlander (Tubular Neighborhoods in the Etale Topology). From 1974 to 1975, he was partner professor at Haverford College and at Rutgers University from 1975 to 1979. In 1979, he became co-conspirator professor and in 1988 professor at Amherst College.
He studies, among new things, étale homotopy theory, elliptic surfaces, computer-based algebraic geometry (such as Gröbner basis), Torelli sets and toric varieties, and records of mathematics. He is plus 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 normal the Lester Randolph Ford Award for Why Eisenstein Proved the Eisenstein Criterion and Why Schönemann Discovered It First.
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