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[email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SECANT INDICES, DUALITY DEFECT, AND GENERALIZATIONS OF THE SEGRE ZETA FUNCTION By GRAYSON S. JORGENSON A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Mathematics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2020 Copyright c 2020 Grayson S. Jorgenson. All Rights Reserved. Grayson S. Jorgenson defended this dissertation on March 30, 2020. The members of the supervisory committee were: Paolo Aluffi Professor Directing Dissertation Svetlana Pevnitskaya University Representative Ettore Aldrovandi Committee Member Mark van Hoeij Committee Member Kathleen Petersen Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank Paolo Aluffi for all his guidance, encouragement, and support over the duration of my doctoral work. I always look forward to meeting with him and I have greatly enjoyed hearing his insights. His passion for math and for science and the arts as a whole has been an enormous inspiration to me, helping to drive my own work and curiosity. I am extremely grateful to have been able to work under his tutelage. Throughout my degree I felt fortunate to have been able to get to know many of the other great people in the FSU math department.