What is Tadashi Tokieda?
Tokieda was born in [[Tokyo Metropolis|Tokyo]] and grew up to be a [[Painting|painter]]. <ref>{{cite interview |last=Tokieda |first=Tadashi |subject-link= |interviewer=Brady Haran |title=An Educated Adult |work=Numberphile |date=July 11, 2022 |publisher= |location=California |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJCm10ajJw |access-date=July 11, 2022}}</ref>He then studied at [[Lycée Sainte-Marie Grand Lebrun]] in [[France]] as a [[philologist]]. He was able to teach himself basic [[mathematics]] from Russian problems. He is a 1989 graduate from [[Sophia University]] in Tokyo and has a 1991 bachelor's degree from Oxford in mathematics where he also studied. But he got his PhD at [[Princeton University|Princeton]]. He has been a part of the [[African Institute for Mathematical Sciences]] since it started in 2003. In 2004 he became the Director of Studies in Mathematics and in 2015–2016 he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at [[Stanford University|Stanford]]. Some facts about him are that he is fluent in [[Japanese language|Japanese]], French, and English he also knows ancient Greek, Latin, classical Chinese, Finnish, Spanish, and Russian. Recently in March 2020, Tokieda was interviewed on The Joy of X, [[Steven Strogatz]]'s podcast for [[Quanta Magazine]]. He is known for studying [[Mathematical physics]] Tokieda was awarded the Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award in 2014. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tokieda, Tadashi}} [[Category:1968 births]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:Geometers]] [[Category:Japanese mathematicians]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Princeton University alumni]] [[Category:Princeton University faculty]] [[Category:Scientists from Tokyo]] [[Category:Stanford University faculty]]