Sōichi Kakeya

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]

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