John_C._Wood

John C. Wood

John C. Wood

British mathematician

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 PhD 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 PhD students in 2011.[5]

Publications

References

  1. [1]
    Faculty profile, University of Leeds, retrieved 2015-02-02.
  2. [2]
    Book Review, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 38 (2006), 869-872.
  3. [3]
    Harmonic Morphisms Between Riemannian Manifolds. London Mathematical Society Monographs. Oxford University Press. 29 May 2003. ISBN 978-0-19-850362-0.
  4. [4]
    John C. Wood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. [5]
    "Alumnus Spurns Ph.D.over Plagiarism Row". Times Higher Education. 27 September 2012.
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