Career
He is a recipient of the 2002 R. East. Moore Prize, and the 2004 Express Mail Service Prize. Tucker obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1998 at Uppsala University (thesis: The Lorenz attractor exists) with Lennart Carleson as advisor. In 2002, Tucker succeeded in solving an important open problem that had been posed by Stephen Smale (the fourteenth problem on Smale"s list of problems).
