Tadashi Tokieda
| Tadashi Tokieda | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Princeton University Cambridge University Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | William Browder |
| Doctoral students | Anik Soulière |
| Notable awards | Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award (2014)[1] |
Tadashi Tokieda (in Japanese: 時枝 正) is a Japanese mathematician, working 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 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.[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 was elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall,[6] where he is now the Director of Studies in Mathematics and the Stephan and Thomas Körner Fellow.[7]
He was the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow in 2013–2014 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[8]
In the academic year 2015–2016 he was 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
- Tokieda, Tadashi (2013). "Roll Models". The American Mathematical Monthly. 120 (3): 265–282. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.03.265.
- 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.
- Montaldi, James; Tokieda, Tadashi (2003). "Openness of momentum maps and persistence of extremal relative equilibria". Topology. 42: 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.
- Tokieda, Tadashi (2001). "Tourbillons dansants". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, série I. 333: 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
- ↑ 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
External links
- Tadashi Tokieda at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- personal homepage at the University of Cambridge
- "Toy inspires new spin on Earth's magnetic field", New Scientist