Sōichi Kakeya

Japanese mathematician

Sōichi Kakeya
Born	(1886-01-18)18 January 1886 Fukayasu, Japan
Died	9 January 1947(1947-01-09) (aged 60)
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Imperial University of Tokyo
Known for	Kakeya set Kakeya conjecture Eneström-Kakeya theorem^[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Imperial University of Tokyo Tokyo Bunri University Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Sōichi Kakeya (掛谷宗一, Kakeya Sōichi, January 18, 1886 – January 9, 1947) was a Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis and who posed the Kakeya problem and solved a version of the transportation problem.^[2]^[3] He received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1928, and was elected to the Japan Academy in 1934.^[4]

References

^ Robert Bentley Gardner (1997) "Some generalizations of the Eneström-Kakeya Theorem", Acta Mathematica Hungarica 74(1–2):125–34. doi:10.1007/BF02697881
^ Tanaka, George (1986). "The Transportation Problem by Prof. Soichi Kakeya". Hosei University Research Department Bulletin.
^ Kakeya, Soichi (1917), "Some problems on maximum and minimum regarding ovals", Tohoku Science Reports, 6: 71–88
^ "The Japan Academy, Deceased Members: K, L".

Kakeya, S. (1912–13) "On the Limits of the Roots of an Algebraic Equation with Positive Coefficients," Tohoku Mathematical Journal (First Series),2:140–142.