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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".1 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.
2 Work
He is known to a wider public for his thousands of short, aphoristic poems called GrookA grook ( gruk in Danish) is a form of short aphoristic poem. It was invented by the Danish poet and scientist Piet Hein (he wrote over 7,000 of them, published in 20 volumes). Some say that the name is short for "GRin & sUK" ("cry and moan" in Danish), bs and creations like the game of Hex, TangloidsTangloids is a mathematical game for two players created by Piet Hein to model the calculus of Spinors. Two flat blocks of wood each pierced with three tiny holes are joined with three parallel strings. Each player holds one of the blocks of wood. The fir, Morra , TowerA tower is a high structure, usually man-made. The sea can erode the land and make a tower known as a sea-stack. Purposes: being impressive or beautiful saving surface area for the view for tourism for guiding: air traffic control tower, in particular at, Polytaire , TacTixTacTix is a two-player strategy game invented by Piet Hein. It is essentially a two-dimensional version of Nim. Though the game is non-trivial, the first player can always win, at least in the 5 by 5 matrix version by choosing the center piece and symmetr, Nimbi , Polytaire , Qrazy Qube , Pyramystery and the Soma cubeThe Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle created by Piet Hein during a lecture on Quantum Mechanics by Werner Heisenberg. Seven pieces made out of unit cubes must be assembled into a 3x3x3 cube. The pieces can also be used to make a variety of other int. He advocated the use of the super ellipseA super ellipse is a geometrical figure which in a cartesian coordinate system can be described as the set of all points x y with : where n > 0 and a and b are the radii of the oval shape. The case n 2 yields an ordinary ellipse; increasing n beyond 2 yie 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 .
3 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; BooksEnthsiast.com
- Collected Grooks I, by Piet Hein Borgens Forlag; BooksEnthsiast.com
- Collected Grooks II, by Piet Hein Borgens Forlag; BooksEnthsiast.com
4 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. - BooksEnthsiast.com
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