Professor John C. Wood (born 1949) is a British mathematician working at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. He is one of the leading experts on

harmonic map In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a smooth map between Riemannian manifolds is called harmonic if its coordinate representatives satisfy a certain nonlinear partial differential equation. This partial differential equation for ...

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harmonic morphism In mathematics, a harmonic morphism is a (smooth) map \phi:(M^m,g)\to (N^n,h) between Riemannian manifolds that pulls back real-valued harmonic functions on the codomain to harmonic functions on the domain. Harmonic morphisms form a special class of ...

s in the field of

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

. 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. Wood earned his PhD from the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

in 1974, under the supervision of James Eells.

Plagiarism

Wood was at the centre of a plagiarism row with one of his former PhD students in 2011.

Publications

*with Paul Baird
''Harmonic Morphisms between Riemannian Manifolds''
London Math. Society Monographs (N.S.), No. 29,

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(2003)
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References

External links

Home page
at the

Festschrift
in honour of Prof. John C. Woo
on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Alumnus Spurns PhD over Plagiarism Row
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, John C. 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians 1949 births Living people Academics of the University of Leeds