Kakeya Problem/Historical Note
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Historical Note on the Kakeya Problem
The Kakeya Problem was raised by Soichi Kakeya in $1917$.
It remained unanswered until $1928$, at which time Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch solved it.
Sources
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Kakeya's problem (S. Kakeya, 1917)