Dan Segal, Date of Birth

Dan Segal

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1947

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Daniel Segal (born 1947) 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.
He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he was sub-warden from 2006 to 2008.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 of Michael Segal, a senior civil servant.