Piet Hein (Denmark) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 18, 1996) was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, and author, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone".
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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.
He was a direct descendant of Piet Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century.
Work
He is known to a wider public for his thousands of short, aphoristic poems called Grooks and creations like the game of Hex, Tangloids, Morra, Tower, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Polytaire, 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 markets housewares based on the Superellipse® and Super-Egg.
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