Tadashi Tokieda
Tadashi Tokieda | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Awards | Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award (2014)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University Cambridge University Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | William Browder |
| Doctoral students | Anik Soulière |
Tadashi François Tokieda (in Japanese: 時枝 正) is a Japanese mathematician, specializing in mathematical physics. He is the Director of Studies in Mathematics[2] at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is also very active in inventing, collecting, and studying toys.[3] In comparison to most mathematicians, he had a very unusual path of life: he grew up as a painter in Japan and was then educated as a classical philologist, before he later became a mathematician.[4]
Life and career
Tokieda was born in Japan and grew up as a painter. He was then educated in France as a classical philologist. According to his personal homepage, he then learnt basic mathematics from Russian collections of problems. He obtained his PhD at Princeton University under the supervision of William Browder.[5]
In 2004 he became a lecturer at Trinity Hall,[6] where he now is the Director of Studies in Mathematics.[7]
He was the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow in 2013–2014 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[8]
He is currently (since 2015) the Poincaré Visiting Professor at Stanford University.[9]
He is fluent in Japanese, French, and English and knows Greek, Latin, classical Chinese, Finnish, Spanish, and Russian.[10] So far, he has lived in six countries.[11]
Selected publications
- Aref, Hassan; Newton, Paul K.; Stremler, Mark A.; Tokieda, Tadashi; Vainchtein, Dmitri L. (2003-01-01). Mechanics, BT - Advances in Applied (ed.). Vortex Crystals. Vol. 39. Elsevier. pp. 1–79. doi:10.1016/s0065-2156(02)39001-x.
- Tokieda, Tadashi (2013-01-01). "Roll Models". The American Mathematical Monthly. 120 (3): 265–282. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.03.265.
- Tokieda, Tadashi F. (1998-01-01). "Mechanical Ideas in Geometry". The American Mathematical Monthly. 105 (8): 697–703. doi:10.2307/2588986.
- Tokieda, Tadashi F. (1997-01-01). "The Hopping Hoop". The American Mathematical Monthly. 104 (2): 152–154. doi:10.2307/2974983.
References
- ^ http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/paul-halmos-lester-ford-awards
- ^ personal homepage at Trinity Hall
- ^ homepage at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study (Harvard)
- ^ bio at the Modern Mathematics International summer school for students
- ^ Tokieda at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ homepage at Trinity Hall
- ^ https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~tokieda/Tokieda_bio.html
- ^ https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/tadashi-tokieda
- ^ homepage at Stanford University
- ^ bio at the Modern Mathematics International summer school for students
- ^ personal homepage at Trinity Hall