Sōichi Kakeya Explained

Sōichi Kakeya
Birth Date:	18 January 1886
Birth Place:	Fukayasu, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Imperial University of Tokyo Tokyo Bunri University Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Alma Mater:	Imperial University of Tokyo
Known For:	Kakeya set Kakeya conjecture Eneström-Kakeya theorem^[1]

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] He received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1928, and was elected to the Japan Academy in 1934.^[3]

References

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Robert Bentley Gardner (1997) "Some generalizations of the Eneström-Kakeya Theorem", Acta Mathematica Hungarica 74(1–2):125–34.
2. Tanaka. George. 1986. The Transportation Problem by Prof. Soichi Kakeya. Hosei University Research Department Bulletin.
3. Web site: The Japan Academy, Deceased Members: K, L.