Dan Segal | |
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Dan Segal in 2008
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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.