John C. Wood
Professor John C. Wood (born 1949) is a British mathematician working at the University of Leeds.[1] He is one of the leading experts on harmonic maps and harmonic morphisms in the field of differential geometry.[2]
Wood is a coauthor of the monograph: Harmonic Morphisms Between Riemannian Manifolds. This was published in 2003 and is still the standard text on the subject.[3]
Wood earned his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 1974, under the supervision of James Eells.[4]
Plagiarism[]
Wood was at the centre of a plagiarism row with one of his former Ph.D. students in 2011.[5]
Publications[]
- with Paul Baird: Harmonic Morphisms between Riemannian Manifolds, London Math. Society Monographs (N.S.), No. 29, Oxford University Press (2003)
- Profile at Zentralblatt MATH
References[]
- ^ Faculty profile, University of Leeds, retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ Book Review, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 38 (2006), 869-872.
- ^ "Harmonic Morphisms Between Riemannian Manifolds". Oxford University Press.
- ^ John C. Wood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Alumnus Spurns Ph.D.over Plagiarism Row". Times Higher Education.
External links[]
- Home page at the University of Leeds
- Festschrift in honour of Prof. John C. Wood on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
- Alumnus Spurns PhD over Plagiarism Row
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