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Dan Segal

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Dan Segal
Dan Segal in 2008
(photo from MFO)
EducationPeterhouse, Cambridge
University of London
AwardsAdams Prize (1982)
Whitehead Prize (1985)
Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (2002)
Pólya Prize (LMS) (2012)
Scientific career
WorkplacesAll Souls College, Oxford
Bertram Wehrfritz
Doctoral students
Geoff Smith
Marcus du Sautoy

Daniel Segal (born 1947)[1] is a British mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He specialises in algebra and group theory.

He studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, before taking a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London, in 1972, supervised by Bertram Wehrfritz, with a dissertation on group theory entitled Groups of Automorphisms of Infinite Soluble Groups.[2] He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he was sub-warden from 2006 to 2008.[3][4]

His postgraduate students have included Marcus du Sautoy and Geoff Smith. He is the son of psychoanalyst Hanna Segal and brother of philosopher Gabriel Segal as well as Michael Segal, a senior civil servant.

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  1. ↑ "2007 website for a mathematical conference held on the 60th birthday of Dan Segal". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
  2. ↑ Dan Segal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "Professor Daniel Segal, sub-warden". Archived from the original on 21 April 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Homepage in Oxford[link removed]
  5. 1 2 Lubotzky, Alexander (2001). "Review of Analytic pro-p-groups, New horizons in pro-p-groups, and two other books". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 38 (4): 475–479. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00914-4.
  6. ↑ Grigorchuk, Rostislav I. (2004). "Review: Subgroup growth, by Alexander Lubotzky and Dan Segal". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 41 (2): 253–256. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-03-01003-6.
  7. ↑ Nekrashevych, V. (2011). "Review: Words: notes on verbal width in groups, by Dan Segal". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 48 (3): 491–494. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-2011-01333-7.