Dan Segal

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Dan Segal
Dan Segal in 2008
(photo from MFO)
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge
University of London
AwardsAdams Prize (1982)
Whitehead Prize (1985)
Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (2002)
Pólya Prize (LMS) (2012)
Scientific career
InstitutionsAll Souls College, Oxford
Doctoral advisorBertram Wehrfritz
Doctoral studentsGeoff Smith
Marcus du Sautoy

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.

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 as Michael Segal, a senior civil servant.

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