page_title: Willem van der Woude
section_title: Education and career
hierarchical_section_title: Willem van der Woude / Education and career
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Lustrum van de Leidse universiteit en van de plechtigheden van de heropening. Stoet hoogleraren op weg naar Pieterskerk vanuit het Academiegebouw. Tweede van links Berend George Escher, in het midden met sjerp en onderscheidigen rector-magnificus Willem van der Woude, naast hem Rudolph Cleveringa (?). 17 september 1945English: Leiden professors marching from the Academy Building to the Peter's Church in Leiden (opening of the academic year). Left to right: unknown professor, Berend Escher (geology), rector Willem van der Woude, Rudolph Cleveringa (?). 17 Sept. 1945
context_page_description: Willem van der Woude was a Dutch mathematician and rector magnificus of the University of Leiden.
context_section_description: Van der Woude studied at the University of Groningen and then from 1901 to 1916 taught in Deventer. In 1908 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Groningen under Pieter Hendrik Schoute with thesis Over elkaar snijdende normalen aan een ellipsoide en een hyperellipsoide (On intersecting normals to an ellipsoid and a hyperellipsoid). From 1916 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1947 he was professor of mathematics and mechanics at the University of Leiden.
  In 1924 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto. In the years 1923, 1924, 1939 and 1940 he chaired the Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap.
  He was rector magnificus of the University of Leiden during three separate periods: 1934-1935, 1941-43 and 1945 (until he was succeeded by Berend George Escher).
caption: Van der Woude (middle) as rector in Leiden (1945)
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