The Honourable Nicholas Michael John Woodhouse (born 27 February 1949) is a British mathematician. He is Emeritus Fellow of

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and former President of the

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Education and early life

Woodhouse is the younger son and second child of Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, and Lady Davidema (Davina) Bulwer-Lytton. He was educated at

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, then the University of Oxford and

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. He completed his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford in 1970 and PhD at the University of London, King's College in 1973, where he subsequently held an SRC Fellowship. In 1973, he also held a Procter Visiting Fellowship at

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Career

He was Research Associate in the Department of Physics, Princeton University (1975-1976) and a Junior Lecturer, University of Oxford (1976-1977). In 1977, he was made a Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford, where he has been an Emeritus Fellow since 1988. He was Head of the

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, University of Oxford (2001-2009). He served as Treasurer of the

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(2002-2009) and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute (2012-2018).Prof. Nick Woodhouse
Mathematical Institute His research is in applications of geometry in mathematical physics.

Honours

Woodhouse was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to mathematics.

Bibliography

* ''Lectures on Geometric Quantization'', with D J Simms, Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer, 1976 * ''Introduction to Analytical Dynamics'', OUP, 1987; Springer, 2010 * ''Geometric Quantization'', OUP, 1980 (2nd edition 1997) * ''Special Relativity'', Lecture Notes in Physics, Monographs, Springer, 1992 * ''Integrability, Self-Duality, and Twistor Theory'', with L.J. Mason, OUP/LMS, 1995 * ''Special Relativity'', Springer, 2004 * ''General Relativity'', Springer, 2007N.M.J. Woodhouse (Author of General Relativity)
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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodhouse, N. M. J. 1949 births Living people British mathematicians Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford Younger sons of barons Commanders of the Order of the British Empire