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Piet Hein
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20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1905-12-16 ) 16 December 1905, Copenhagen , Denmark
- Died
- 17 April 1996 (1996-04-17) (aged 90), Funen , Denmark
- Known for
- Puzzles, poems
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Hein
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Copenhagen
- Place of death
- Middelfart
- Mother
- Estrid Hein
- Occupation
- designer
- Educated at
- Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Danish
- Field of work
- design
- Official website
- www.piethein.com/page/piet-hein-16
- Image
- Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1905-01-01
- date of death
- 1996-01-01
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- Piet Hein
- name in native language
- Piet Hein
- different from
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
- has works in the collection
- Nationalmuseum
- Commons category
- Piet Hein
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Encyclopedic overview
Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996) was a Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet), often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks (Danish: gruk), 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.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piet Hein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.