# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/soichi-kakeya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:51:39.394Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/soichi-kakeya"
name: "Sōichi Kakeya"
slug: "soichi-kakeya"
description: "Sōichi Kakeya  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."
tagline: "Japanese mathematician (1886–1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/S%C5%8Dichi_Kakeya%2C_circa_1937.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886-01-18"
deathDate: "1947-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.560909333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8E%9B%E8%B0%B7%E5%AE%97%E4%B8%80"
    title: "掛谷宗一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سويتشى كاكيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dichi_Kakeya"
    title: "Sōichi Kakeya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dichi_Kakeya"
    title: "Sōichi Kakeya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dichi_Kakeya"
    title: "Sōichi Kakeya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8E%9B%E8%B0%B7%E5%AE%97%E4%B8%80"
    title: "掛谷宗一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%80%EC%BC%80%EC%95%BC_%EC%86%8C%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98"
    title: "가케야 소이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump