Graeme Segal
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Graeme B. Segal (b. 1942) is a British mathematician, and Professor at the University of Oxford.
He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Oxford; his thesis, written under the supervision of Michael Atiyah, was titled Equivariant K-theory .
His thesis was on equivariant K-theory; the Atiyah-Segal completion theorem in that subject was a major motivation for the Segal conjecture, which he formulated. He has made many other contributions to homotopy theory in the past four decades, including an approach to infinite loop spaces. He was also a pioneer of elliptic cohomology, which is related to his interest in topological quantum field theory.
[edit] External links
- Graeme Segal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Topology, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory Proceedings of the 2002 Oxford Symposium in Honour of the 60th Birthday of Graeme Segal.
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