Biography:Tadashi Tokieda
Tadashi Tokieda | |
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 Tokieda in 2018 | |
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) Tokyo, Japan |
| Education | Lycée Sainte-Marie Grand Lebrun[1] |
| Alma mater | Sophia University[1] University of Oxford Princeton University |
| Awards | Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award (2014)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University Cambridge University Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | William Browder |
Tadashi Tokieda (Japanese: 時枝正; born 1968) is a Japanese mathematician, working in mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University;[3] previously he was a fellow and Director of Studies of Mathematics[4] at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is also very active in inventing, collecting, and studying toys that uniquely reveal and explore real-world surprises of mathematics and physics.[5] In comparison with most mathematicians, he had an unusual path in life: he started as a painter, and then became a classical philologist, before switching to mathematics.[6]
Life and career
Tokieda was born in Tokyo and grew up to be a painter.[7]
He then studied at Lycée Sainte-Marie Grand Lebrun[1] in France as a classical philologist. According to his personal homepage, he taught himself basic mathematics from Russian collections of problems.
He is a 1989 classics graduate from Sophia University[1] in Tokyo and has a 1991 bachelor's degree from Oxford in mathematics (where he studied as a British Council Fellow). He obtained his PhD at Princeton under the supervision of William Browder.[8]
Tokieda joined the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as a J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor for the 1997 academic year.[9]
He has been involved in the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences since its beginning in 2003.
In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall, where he became the Director of Studies in Mathematics and the Stephan and Thomas Körner Fellow.[10][11]
He was the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow in 2013–2014 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[12]
In the academic year 2015–2016 he was the Poincaré Distinguished Visiting Professor at Stanford.[13]
Besides his native language Japanese, he is also fluent in French and English. In addition, he knows ancient Greek, Latin, classical Chinese, Finnish, Spanish, and Russian.[6] So far he has lived in eight countries.[14]
In March 2020, Tokieda was interviewed on The Joy of X, Steven Strogatz's podcast for Quanta Magazine.[15]
Selected publications
- Tokieda, Tadashi (2013). "Roll Models". The American Mathematical Monthly 120 (3): 265–282. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.03.265. http://www.maa.org/node/461185/.
- Childress, Stephen; Spagnolie, Saverio E.; Tokieda, Tadashi (2011). "A bug on a raft: recoil locomotion in a viscous fluid". Journal of Fluid Mechanics 669: 527–556. doi:10.1017/S002211201000515X. Bibcode: 2011JFM...669..527C.
- Montaldi, James; Tokieda, Tadashi (2003). "Openness of momentum maps and persistence of extremal relative equilibria". Topology 42 (4): 833–844. doi:10.1016/S0040-9383(02)00047-2.
- Aref, Hassan; Newton, Paul K.; Stremler, Mark A.; Tokieda, Tadashi; Vainchtein, Dmitri L. (2003). "Vortex Crystals". Advances in Applied Mechanics 39: 1–79. doi:10.1016/s0065-2156(02)39001-x. ISBN 9780120020393.
- Tokieda, Tadashi (2001). "Tourbillons dansants". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I 333 (10): 943–946. doi:10.1016/S0764-4442(01)02162-0.
- Tokieda, Tadashi (1998). "Mechanical Ideas in Geometry". The American Mathematical Monthly 105 (8): 697–703. doi:10.2307/2588986.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 (in Japanese) 数学まなびはじめ 第３集. Tōkyō: Nihon Hyōronsha. 23 July 2015. pp. 190–203. ISBN 978-4-535-78592-2.
- ↑ "Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards - Mathematical Association of America". http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/paul-halmos-lester-ford-awards.
- ↑ "Faculty & Lecturers | Mathematics". https://mathematics.stanford.edu/people/faculty-lecturers/.
- ↑ personal homepage at Trinity Hall
- ↑ homepage at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study (Harvard)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 bio at the Modern Mathematics International summer school for students
- ↑ Tokieda, Tadashi (July 11, 2022). "An Educated Adult". Numberphile (Interview). Interviewed by Brady Haran. California. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
- ↑ "Tadashi Tokieda - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=60734.
- ↑ "Math Times - Fall 1997". https://math.illinois.edu/system/files/inline-files/MathTimesFA97.pdf.
- ↑ homepage at Trinity Hall
- ↑ "Tadashi Tokieda's bio". https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~tokieda/Tokieda_bio.html.
- ↑ "Tadashi Tokieda". 25 September 2013. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/tadashi-tokieda.
- ↑ homepage at Stanford University
- ↑ Stony Brook University (27 October 2016). "Five Questions With Tadashi Tokieda". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGgIKSXgYAg.
- ↑ "Tadashi Tokieda's Special Kind of Magic". Quanta Magazine. 10 March 2020. https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokiedas-special-kind-of-magic-20200310/.
External links
- Tadashi Tokieda at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- at the University of Cambridge
- "Toy inspires new spin on Earth's magnetic field", New Scientist
- "Tadashi Tokieda on Numberphile playlist- YouTube". https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp1wvOJsjt23H_.
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