Mathematician:Soichi Kakeya

Mathematician
Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis

Posed the Kakeya Problem.

Solved a version of the desert crossing problem.

Nationality
Japanese

History

 * Born: 18 January 1886
 * Died: 9 January 1947

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kakeya Problem
 * Kakeya Conjecture
 * Eneström-Kakeya Theorem (with )
 * Kakeya's Constant (also known as the Bloom-Schoenberg number, for and )


 * Kakeya Set (also known as a Besicovitch Set, for )

Also known as
In Japanese: 掛谷 宗

In Western script, usually rendered with a diacritic: Sōichi Kakeya

Can also be rendered Kakeya Sōichi.