Tadashi Tokieda

Tadashi Tokieda
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Princeton University
Awards	Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University Cambridge University Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	William Browder
Doctoral students	Anik Soulière

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 that uniquely exhibit, combine, & demonstrate real-world fundamentals of mathematical physics . 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.

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 taught himself basic mathematics from Russian collections of problems. He is a 1989 classics graduate from Jochi University 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.

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.

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