Sōichi Kakeya
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Sōichi Kakeya | |
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Born | |
Died | 9 January 1947 | (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.
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