Dan Segal

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		Name Dan Segal

Alma mater University of CambridgeUniversity of London Doctoral students Geoff SmithMarcus du SautoyJ. BolgarBenjamin KlopschJuliette WhiteInger BorgeNikolay Nikolov Notable awards Adams Prize (1982)Whitehead Prize (1985)Polya Prize (LMS) (2012)
Institutions University of Oxford Doctoral advisor Bertram Wehrfritz

Dan segal

Daniel Segal (born 1947) 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. He is a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he is sub-warden.

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.

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Publications

Polycyclic Groups, Cambridge University Press 1983

with J. Dixon, M. Du Sautoy, A. Mann Analytic pro-p-groups, Cambridge University Press 1999, Paperback edn. 2003

ed. with M. Du Sautoy, A. Shalev New horizons in pro-p-groups, Birkhäuser 2000

with Alexander Lubotzky Subgroup growth, Birkhäuser 2003

Words: notes on verbal width in groups, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, vol. 361, Cambridge University Press 2009

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