Nationality Japanese Academic advisor William Browder | Doctoral students Anik Soulière Field Mathematics Notable student Anik Soulière | |
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Notable awards Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award (2014) Institutions | ||
Topology geometry lecture 01 part 01 02 by dr tadashi tokieda
Tadashi Tokieda (in Japanese: 時枝 正) is a Japanese mathematician, working in mathematical physics. He is the Director of Studies in Mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is also very active in inventing, collecting, and studying toys. 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.
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- Topology geometry lecture 01 part 01 02 by dr tadashi tokieda
- Balancing a ruler numberphile
- Life and career
- Selected publications
- References
Balancing a ruler numberphile
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 is a 1989 classics graduate from Jochi University in Tokyo, has a 1991 bachelor's degree from Oxford in mathematics (where he studied as a British Council Fellow) and a 1992 master's degree from Princeton. He obtained his PhD at Princeton University under the supervision of William Browder.
In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall, where he is now the Director of Studies in Mathematics and the Stephan and Thomas Körner Fellow.
He was the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow in 2013–2014 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
In the academic year 2015–2016 he was the Poincaré Distinguished Visiting Professor at Stanford University.
He is fluent in Japanese, French, and English and knows Greek, Latin, classical Chinese, Finnish, Spanish, and Russian. So far he has lived in six countries.