Mr Dan Mcveagh
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Overview
Overview
Office hours
By arrangement: email d.mcveagh@bbk.ac.uk
Qualifications
- BSc (HONS) Mathematics, University College London, 1992
- MSc Mathematics, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2015
- PG/CE, Institute of Education, 2008
Administrative responsibilities
- Programme Director for Undergraduate Mathematics & Statistics Programmes
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Group Theory
Research overview
I am currently engaged in a PhD project concerning finite groups.
Questions of interest:
- how many square roots can a group element have?
- how many cubed roots?
- more generally, for a prime number p, how many pth roots?
- what is the structure of the squaring digraph of a finite group?
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Problems in Mathematics (BUEM009S6)
- Group Theory (BUEM036H7)
- Abstract Algebra 1 (BUEM123H6)
- Abstract Algebra 2 (BUEM124H6)
- Calculus 1 (EMMS096S4)
- Algebra 1 (EMMS097S4)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Hart, Sarah and Mcveagh, Dan (2020) Groups with many roots. International Journal of Group Theory 9 (4), pp. 261-276. ISSN 2251-7650.