Geoff Smith

Geoffrey Charles Smith (born 1953) is a British mathematician and Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Bath. He is noted for his contributions to group theory. He was edudated at Trinity School in Croydon, Keble College, Oxford, the University of Warwick and received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1983. His thesis, Zeta functions of torsion-free finitely generated nilpotent groups, was written under the direction of... more

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