Dan Segal
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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.
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Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge University of London |
Awards | Adams Prize (1982) Whitehead Prize (1985) Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (2002) Pólya Prize (LMS) (2012) |
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Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | Bertram Wehrfritz |
Doctoral students | Geoff Smith Marcus du Sautoy |
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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.