Dan Segal
Dan Segal (born October 26, 1947 ) is a British mathematician who deals with group theory.
Segal studied at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse College) and received his doctorate in 1972 under Bertram Wehrfritz at Queen Mary College, University of London ( Groups of Automorphisms of Infinite Soluble Group ) He is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and Fellow of All Souls College.
In 1982 he received the Adams Prize and in 1985 the Whitehead Prize . In 2002 he received the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (for the book Subgroup growth with Alexander Lubotzky ) and in 2012 the Pólya Prize .
Marcus du Sautoy is one of his PhD students .
Fonts
- Polycyclic Groups , Cambridge University Press 1983
- with Alexander Lubotzky Subgroup growth , Birkhäuser 2003
- with J. Dixon, Du Sautoy, A. Mann Analytic pro-p-groups , Cambridge University Press 1999, paperback edition 2003
- Editor with Du Sautoy, A. Shalev New horizons in pro-p-groups , Birkhäuser 2000
- Words: notes on verbal width in groups , London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, Volume 361, Cambridge University Press 2009
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segal, Dan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Segal, Daniel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1947 |