Dan Segal
Dan Segal | |
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 Dan Segal in 2008 (photo from MFO) | |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge University of London |
| Awards | Adams Prize (1982) Whitehead Prize (1985) Pólya Prize (LMS) (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | 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 of Michael Segal, a senior civil servant.
Publications
- Polycyclic Groups, Cambridge University Press 1983
- with J. Dixon, M. Du Sautoy, A. Mann Analytic pro-p-groups, Cambridge University Press 1999,[5] Paperback edn. 2003
- ed. with M. Du Sautoy, A. Shalev New horizons in pro-p-groups, Birkhäuser 2000[5]
- with Alexander Lubotzky Subgroup growth, Birkhäuser 2003[6]
- Words: notes on verbal width in groups, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, vol. 361, Cambridge University Press 2009[7]
References
- ^ 2007 website for a mathematical conference held on the 60th birthday of Dan Segal
- ^ Dan Segal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Professor Daniel Segal, sub-warden
- ^ Homepage in Oxford
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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