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Tadashi Nagano is a Taiwan-born Japanese-American mathematician who worked mainly on differential geometry and related subjects.

Biography
Tadashi Nagano pursued his undergraduate studes from 1951 to 1954 at the University of Tokyo, and defended his doctoral thesis under Kentaro Yano's supervision at University of Tokyo in 1959. He worked at the Tokyo University from April in 1952 to May of 1967 as a lecturer (1952-1961) and as an assistant professor (1962-1967). Tadashi Nagano moved to United States to pursue an academic career with the University of Notre Dame in 1967. He became a full professor of University of Notre Dame in 1969.

During his most active years as a scholar, he was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley from 1962-1964, Tsinghua University twice, first in 1966 and then one more time in 1978. After a successful academic career with Notre Dame University, Tadashi Nagano returned back to Japan and became a professor with Sophia University in 1986. He retired from Sophia University at 70 years old in 2000.

Tadashi Nagano served an editor-in-chief of Tokyo Journal of Mathematics for several years since 1990.