Daniel Segal

Dan Segal
Dan Segal in 2008 (photo from MFO)
Institutions	All Souls College, Oxford
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge University of London
Doctoral advisor	Bertram Wehrfritz
Doctoral students	Geoff Smith Marcus du Sautoy J. Bolgar Benjamin Klopsch Juliette White Inger Borge Nikolay Nikolov
Notable awards	Adams Prize (1982) Whitehead Prize (1985) Pólya Prize (LMS) (2012)

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 a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, where he is sub-warden.

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.