About Piet Hein

Piet Hein was a Danish polymath, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell". He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex.

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Occupation: mathematician, poet, writer, physicist

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Piet Hein

20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)

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About Piet Hein

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Occupation: mathematician, poet, writer, physicist

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Kingdom of Denmark

Born

December 16, 1905, 1905

Died

April 17, 1996, April 18, 1996, 1996

Website

http://www.piethein.com/page/piet-hein-16/

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