Michael Peter Drazin (born 5 June 1929) is a British and American mathematician, working in noncommutative algebra.
[4] His younger brother Philip was educated as a boarder at St Christopher School, Letchworth during World War II.
[4] He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1953 for a dissertation Contributions to Abstract Algebra written with advisers Robert Rankin and David Rees.
[9] In 1958 he began a period at RIAS Inc. (the Research Institute for Advanced Studies) in Baltimore as senior scientist, after which he took a position as associate professor at Purdue University in 1962.
[12] While at RIAS, Drazin worked with Emilie Virginia Haynsworth, then at the National Bureau of Standards, within its numerical analysis program.