Oscar Goldman (1925 – 17 December 1986, Bryn Mawr) was an American mathematician, who worked on algebra and its applications to number theory.
[1] Oscar Goldman received his Ph.D in 1948 under Claude Chevalley at Princeton University.
In 1962, Goldman left Brandeis to become a professor and chair of the mathematics department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn., hired several outstanding mathematicians including Richard Kadison and Eugenio Calabi, and regularly consulted Saunders Mac Lane and Donald C. Spencer in making his decisions on hiring and curriculum improvements.
[2] Goldman was shot and wounded on February 11, 1970, at the University of Pennsylvania campus by disgruntled student Robert Cantor, who also shot and killed Professor Walter Koppelman before killing himself.