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Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 18, 1996) was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the signature Kumbel Kumbell. December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ...
1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
This article is about the profession. ...
A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ...
An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ...
The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...
Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ...
Headstones in the Japanese Cemetry in Broome, Western Australia A cemetery in rural Spain A typical late 20th century headstone in the United States A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker, normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a burial. ...
A grook (gruk in Danish) is a form of short aphoristic poem. ...
Politiken is a Danish broadsheet newspaper. ...
Copenhagen Headquarters of the Schalburgerkorps, a Danish SS unit, after 1943 Germanys occupation of Denmark was commenced by Operation Weserübung April 9, 1940, and lasted until the German forces were withdrawn at the end of World War II following their surrender to Allied forces. ...
April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ...
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Biography He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen (later to become the Niels Bohr Institute), and Technical University of Denmark. Yale awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1972. He died in his home on Funen, Denmark in 1996. Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital and largest city of Denmark. ...
University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (Danish: Københavns Universitet) is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. ...
The Niels Bohr Institute is part of the Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics of the University of Copenhagen. ...
Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)) was founded in 1829 as the College of Advanced Technology (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt) belonging to the University of Copenhagen. ...
For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ...
1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
Funen (Danish: Fyn) is the third largest island of Denmark. ...
1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
He was a direct descendant of Piet Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century. Piet Heyn, 1577-1629 Piet Pieterszoon Hein (also written as Heyn) (November 25, 1577 – June 18, 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years War between the Netherlands and Spain. ...
(15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
Work He is known to a wider public for his thousands of short, aphoristic poems called Grooks (Gruk in Danish) and creations like the game of Hex, Tangloids, Morra, Tower, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Qrazy Qube, Pyramystery and the Soma cube. He advocated the use of the super ellipse curve in city planning, furniture making and other realms. He also invented a perpetual calendar called the Astro Calendar and marketed housewares based on the Superellipse and Super-Egg. Connotatively: an aphorism is a wise saying that bears repetition. ...
Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...
A grook (gruk in Danish) is a form of short aphoristic poem. ...
Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, usually in the shape of a 10 by 10 or a 11 by 11 rhombus. ...
Tangloids is a mathematical game for two players created by Piet Hein to model the calculus of Spinors. ...
Mora can mean: Cameroon Mora, Cameroon Costa Rica Mora Canton Portugal Mora, Portugal Sweden Mora, Sweden - a municipality of Dalarna County in Sweden Mora Court District - a district of Dalecarlia in Sweden United States Mora, Minnesota, United States Mora County, New Mexico, United States Mora (linguistics): A unit of sound...
A tower is a high structure, usually man-made. ...
TacTix is a two-player strategy game invented by Piet Hein. ...
The pieces of a Soma cube (with extra coloring) The same puzzle, assembled into a cube The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle created by Piet Hein during a lecture on quantum mechanics by Werner Heisenberg. ...
A superellipse is a geometrical figure which in a cartesian coordinate system can be described as the set of all points (x, y) with where and and are the radii of the oval shape. ...
Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ...
Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, and hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. ...
A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days. ...
A superellipse is a geometrical figure which in a cartesian coordinate system can be described as the set of all points (x, y) with where and and are the radii of the oval shape. ...
A couple of examples Grooks from Grooks, first published in 1966: A grook (gruk in Danish) is a form of short aphoristic poem. ...
1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
- Mankind
- Men, said the Devil,
- are good to their brothers:
- they don't want to mend
- their own ways, but each other's.
- Double Doors
- Double doors are justified
- because they're comfortably wide;
- therefore, you only half undo 'em;
- therefore, nothing can get through 'em.
Bibliography - "A Poet with a Slide Rule: Piet Hein Bestrides Art and Science," by Jim Hicks, Life Magazine, Vol. 61 No. 16, 10/14/66, pp.55-66
- Grooks, by Piet Hein, (1998) Borgens Forlag; ISBN 8741810791
- Collected Grooks I, by Piet Hein Borgens Forlag; ISBN 8721018596
- Collected Grooks II, by Piet Hein Borgens Forlag; ISBN 8721018618
A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ...
References - Gardner, Martin: Piet Hein's Superellipse. - in Gardner, Martin: Mathematical Carnival. A New Round-Up of Tantalizers and Puzzles from Scientific American. New York: Vintage, 1977, pp. 240-254.
- Johan Gielis: Inventing the circle. The geometry of nature. - Antwerpen : Geniaal Press, 2003. - ISBN 9080775614
Martin Gardner (born October 21, 1914) is an American recreational mathematician, skeptic, and author of the long-running but now discontinued Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. ...
Scientific American is one of the oldest and most serious popular-science magazines. ...
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