David G Cantor

David Geoffrey Cantor (1935 – November 19, 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in number theory and combinatorics. The Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm for factoring polynomials is named after him; he and Hans Zassenhaus published it in 1981.

Cantor did his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1956, and earned his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960, supervised by Basil Gordon and Ernst Straus. He became an assistant professor at the University of Washington in 1962, moved back to UCLA in 1964, and retired in 1991.

In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.