Dan Segal
| Dan Segal | |
|---|---|
 Dan Segal in 2008 (photo from MFO) | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Alma mater |
University of Cambridge University of London |
| Doctoral advisor | Bertram Wehrfritz |
| Doctoral students |
Geoff Smith Marcus du Sautoy J. Bolgar Benjamin Klopsch Juliette White Inger Borge Nikolay Nikolov |
| Notable awards |
Adams Prize (1982) Whitehead Prize (1985) Pólya Prize (LMS) (2012) |
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 a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he is sub-warden.[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.
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
- 1 2 Lubotzsky, 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 Lubotzsky 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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