Dan Segal

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)

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

He originally 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 currently a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he is sub-warden.[3]

His postgraduate students have included Marcus du Sautoy and Geoff Smith.

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