Takashi Ono (小野 孝, Ono Takashi, born 18 December 1928) is a retired Japanese-born American mathematician, specializing in number theory and algebraic groups.
[1] Ono immigrated to the United States after receiving an invitation from J. Robert Oppenheimer to work at the Institute for Advanced Study with a fellowship for the two academic years from 1959 to 1961[2] and then went to the University of British Columbia to work as an assistant professor of mathematics[3] from 1961 to 1964.
In 1966 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow.
[6] His middle son, Santa J. Ono, is serving as the 15th President of the University of Michigan (previously the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia) and is a biomedical researcher.
His eldest son, Momoro Ono, is a music professor at Creighton University.