Tadashi Tokieda

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Tadashi Tokieda
Cambridge University
Stanford University
ThesisNull Sets of Symplectic Capacity
Doctoral advisorWilliam 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[2] 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[2] 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 in 1996 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

References

  1. Maa.org
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  2. ^
    ISBN 978-4-535-78592-2
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  3. Stanford.edu
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  4. ^ "personal homepage". Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
  5. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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  6. ^ a b "bio". "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". University of North Dakota.
  9. Illinois.edu
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  10. ^ "homepage". Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2016-06-05.
  11. Cam.ac.uk
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  12. ^ "Tadashi Tokieda". Harvard.edu. 25 September 2013.
  13. Stanford.edu
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  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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