Daniel Segal (born 1947) is a British

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

and a Professor of Mathematics at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

. He specialises in

algebra Algebra is a branch of mathematics that deals with abstract systems, known as algebraic structures, and the manipulation of expressions within those systems. It is a generalization of arithmetic that introduces variables and algebraic ope ...

and

group theory In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as group (mathematics), groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known algebraic structures, such as ring (mathematics), rings, field ( ...

. He studied at

Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate stud ...

, before taking a

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Queen Mary College Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London. Today, ...

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

, in 1972, supervised by Bertram Wehrfritz, with a dissertation on

entitled ''Groups of

Automorphism In mathematics, an automorphism is an isomorphism from a mathematical object to itself. It is, in some sense, a symmetry of the object, and a way of mapping the object to itself while preserving all of its structure. The set of all automorphism ...

s of Infinite

Soluble Group In mathematics, more specifically in the field of group theory, a solvable group or soluble group is a group that can be constructed from abelian groups using extensions. Equivalently, a solvable group is a group whose derived series terminat ...

s''. He is an Emeritus Fellow of

All Souls College All Souls College (official name: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full me ...

at Oxford, where he was sub-warden from 2006 to 2008. His postgraduate students have included

Marcus du Sautoy Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (; born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popula ...

and Geoff Smith. He is the son of psychoanalyst

Hanna Segal Hanna Segal (born Hanna Poznańska; 20 August 1918 – 5 July 2011) was a British psychoanalyst of Polish descent and a follower of Melanie Klein. She was president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, vice-president of the International P ...

and brother of philosopher

Gabriel Segal Gabriel Segal may refer to: * Gabriel Segal (philosopher) (born 1959), British philosopher * Gabriel Segal (soccer) (born 2001), American footballer {{hndis, Segal, Gabriel ...

as well as Michael Segal, a senior civil servant.

Publications

Articles

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Books

*''Polycyclic Groups'', Cambridge University Press 1983
2005 pbk edition
*with J. Dixon, M. Du Sautoy, A. Mann ''Analytic pro-p-groups'', Cambridge University Press 1999,Paperback edn. 2003
*ed. with M. Du Sautoy, A. Shalev ''New horizons in pro-p-groups'', Birkhäuser 2000Paperback edn. 2012
*with

Alexander Lubotzky Alexander Lubotzky (; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and former politician who is currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an adjunct professor at Yale University. He served as a member of the Knesset for ...

''Subgroup growth'', Birkhäuser 200
Paperback edn. 2012''Words: notes on verbal width in groups''
London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, vol. 361, Cambridge University Press 2009

References

Living people 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Alumni of Queen Mary University of London Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Group theorists Algebraists 1947 births {{UK-mathematician-stub