Back Piet Hein (wetenskaplike) Afrikaans بييت هاين Arabic بييت هاين ARZ Пит Хейн Bulgarian Piet Hein (científic) Catalan Piet Hein Czech Piet Hein Danish Piet Hein (Wissenschaftler) German Piet Hein (sciencisto) Esperanto Piet Hein (danés) Spanish
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Piet Hein | |
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| Born | 16 December 1905 |
| Died | 17 April 1996 (aged 90) |
| Known for | Puzzles, poems |
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".[1] He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex.
- ^ piethein.com Archived 4 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine "For a long time they appeared under the signature Kumbel Kumbell. Here is the reason why: Piet is the Dutch form of the name Peter or Petrus, which means rock, stone, and Hein is a way of spelling 'hen', the old Danish word for a whetstone. 'Kumbel', or 'kumbl' as it strictly speaking should be written, also means stone, though more a grave monument. In other words, Piet Hein, or Stone Stone can, in a way, be translated by Kumbel Kumbel. He originally wrote the second word with two Ls, also later the signature became just Kumbel – the name he is at least as well known by as his own."