Sōichi Kakeya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sōichi Kakeya

Japanese mathematician

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1886

Place of Birth: Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1947

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Soichi Kakeya (?? ??, Kakeya Soichi, 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.
He received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1928, and was elected to the Japan Academy in 1934.