Tadashi Tokieda

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]

Tadashi Tokieda
Tokieda in 2018
Born1968 (age 54–55)
Tokyo, Japan
EducationLycée Sainte-Marie Grand Lebrun[1]
Alma materSophia University[1]
University of Oxford
Princeton University
AwardsPaul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award (2014)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Cambridge University
Stanford University
Doctoral advisorWilliam Browder

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. S2CID 38892886.
  • 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. Bibcode:2011JFM...669..527C. doi:10.1017/S002211201000515X. S2CID 14039767.
  • Montaldi, James; Tokieda, Tadashi (2003). "Openness of momentum maps and persistence of extremal relative equilibria". Topology. 42 (4): 833–844. arXiv:math/0201282. doi:10.1016/S0040-9383(02)00047-2. S2CID 8814996.
  • 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. JSTOR 2588986.

References
  1. 数学まなびはじめ 第３集 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Nihon Hyōronsha. 23 July 2015. pp. 190–203. ISBN 978-4-535-78592-2.
  2. "Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards - Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org.
  3. "Faculty & Lecturers | Mathematics".
  4. personal homepage at Trinity Hall
  5. homepage at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study (Harvard)
  6. bio at the Modern Mathematics International summer school for students
  7. Tokieda, Tadashi (July 11, 2022). "An Educated Adult". Numberphile (Interview). Interviewed by Brady Haran. California. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  8. "Tadashi Tokieda - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu.
  9. "Math Times - Fall 1997" (PDF). math.illinois.edu.
  10. homepage Archived 2016-06-05 at the Wayback Machine at Trinity Hall
  11. "Tadashi Tokieda's bio". www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk.
  12. "Tadashi Tokieda". 25 September 2013.
  13. homepage at Stanford University
  14. Stony Brook University (27 October 2016). "Five Questions With Tadashi Tokieda" – via YouTube.
  15. "Tadashi Tokieda's Special Kind of Magic". Quanta Magazine. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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