Dan Segal

Dan Segal
Dan Segal
	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]

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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
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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[1] 2007 website for a mathematical conference held on the 60th birthday of Dan Segal

[2] Dan Segal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[3] Professor Daniel Segal, sub-warden

[4] Homepage in Oxford

[LubotzskyReview-5] 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.