David Kent Harrison (6 April 1931, Massachusetts – 21 December 1999, Barnstable, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, specializing in algebra, particularly homological algebra and valuation theory.
He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1957; his dissertation, titled On torsion free abelian groups, was written under the supervision of Emil Artin.
[4] Along with his colleague Marie A. Vitulli, he developed a unified valuation theory for rings with zero divisors that generalized both Krull and Archimedean valuations.
[6] He supervised 28 doctoral students including Joel Cunningham.
[3] He is survived by his son, composer and pianist Michael Harrison, a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 2018–2019,[7] and his daughter Jo Ellen Harrison.