Dan Segal

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.

Dan Segal
Dan Segal in 2008
(photo from MFO)
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge
University of London
AwardsAdams Prize (1982)
Whitehead Prize (1985)
Pólya Prize (LMS) (2012)
Scientific career
InstitutionsAll Souls College, Oxford
Doctoral advisorBertram Wehrfritz
Doctoral studentsGeoff Smith
Marcus du Sautoy

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]

References
  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
  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.
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