Sōichi Kakeya
Born(1886-01-18)18 January 1886
Died9 January 1947(1947-01-09) (aged 60)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materImperial University of Tokyo
Known forKakeya set
Kakeya conjecture
Eneström-Kakeya theorem[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsImperial 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

  1. Robert Bentley Gardner (1997) "Some generalizations of the Eneström-Kakeya Theorem", Acta Mathematica Hungarica 74(1–2):125–34. doi:10.1007/BF02697881
  2. Tanaka, George (1986). "The Transportation Problem by Prof. Soichi Kakeya". Hosei University Research Department Bulletin.
  3. Kakeya, Soichi (1917), "Some problems on maximum and minimum regarding ovals", Tohoku Science Reports, 6: 71–88
  4. "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.


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