Dan Segal

Dan Segal ( born October 26, 1947) is a British mathematician who deals with group theory.

Segal studied at Cambridge University ( Peterhouse College) and in 1972 received his doctorate in Bertram Wehr Fritz at Queen Mary College, University of London ( Groups of automorphisms of Infinite Soluble Group) He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Al Souls College.

In 1982 he was awarded the Adams Prize in 1985 and the Whitehead Prize. In 2002 he was awarded the Ferran Sunyer -i - Balaguer - Prize ( for the book Subgroup growth with Alexander Lubotzky ) and the 2012 Pólya Prize.

His doctoral Marcus du Sautoy heard.

Writings

  • Polycyclic Groups, Cambridge University Press 1983
  • Alexander Lubotzky Subgroup growth, Birkhäuser 2003
  • With J. Dixon, you Sautoy, A. Mann Analytic pro- p -groups, Cambridge University Press 1999, paperback 2003 edition
  • Publisher with you Sautoy, A. Shalev New horizons in pro- p -groups, Birkhäuser 2000
  • Words: notes on verbal width in groups, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, vol 361, Cambridge University Press 2009
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