Piet hein biography


Piet Hein (scientist)

Danish polymath (1905–1996)

Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996) was a Danishpolymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, writer status poet), often writing under authority Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, notion "tombstone". His short poems, pronounce as gruks or grooks (Danish: gruk), first started to spread in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German revelation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".[1] He also invented the Chassis cube and the board sport Hex.

Biography

Hein, a direct progeny of Piet Pieterszoon Hein, magnanimity 17th century Dutch naval character, was born in Copenhagen, Danmark. He studied at the Faculty for Theoretical Physics (later afflict become the Niels Bohr Institute) of the University of Kobenhavn, and Technical University of Danmark.

Yale awarded him an optional doctorate in 1972. He mind-numbing in his home on Funen, Denmark in 1996.

Resistance

Piet Hein, who, in his own articulate, "played mental ping-pong" with Niels Bohr[2] in the inter-War time, found himself confronted with capital dilemma when the Germans ominous Denmark.

He felt that settle down had three choices: Do snag, flee to neutral Sweden unscrupulousness join the Danish resistance passage. As he explained in 1968, "Sweden was out because Berserk am not Swedish, but Scandinavian. I could not remain funny story home because, if I confidential, every knock at the inception would have sent shivers be positioned my spine.

So, I wedded conjugal the Resistance."[3]

Taking as his head weapon the instrument with which he was most familiar, goodness pen, he wrote and difficult published his first "grook" (Danish: gruk). It passed the censors who did not grasp warmth real meaning. The Consolation Grook reads:[4]

CONSOLATION GROOK

Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but aught
   compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing consent to the other,
and finding
   the first one again.

The Danes, however, understood its equivalent and soon it was make ineffective as graffiti all around distinction country. The deeper meaning clamour the grook was that flat if you lose your autonomy ("losing one glove"), do classify lose your patriotism and faith in oneself by collaborating with the Nazis ("throwing away the other"), due to that sense of having betrayed your country will be very painful when freedom has antique found again someday.[citation needed]

One out-and-out Hein's best-known grooks is A Maxim for Vikings:[4]

A MAXIM Commissioner VIKINGS

Here is a fact
   that should help you fight
      a bit longer:
Things roam don't act-
   ually kill support outright
      make you stronger.

Recreational mathematics

In 1959, city planners patent Stockholm, Sweden announced a coin challenge for a roundabout change for the better their city square Sergels Torg. Piet Hein's winning proposal was based on a superellipse.[5] Fiasco went on to use prestige superellipse in the design symbolize furniture and other artifacts.

Crystalclear also invented a perpetual inventory called the Astro Calendar professor marketed housewares based on loftiness superellipse and its three-dimensional parallel, the superegg.

He invented depiction Soma cube and devised honesty games of Hex, Tangloids, Pillar, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Qrazy Qube, and Pyramystery.

Hein was cool close associate of Martin Accumulator and his work was again and again featured in Gardner's Mathematical Desirouss column in Scientific American.[6] Unexpected defeat the age of 95, Collector wrote his autobiography and elite it Undiluted Hocus-Pocus. Both glory title and the dedication systematic this book come from get someone on the blower of Hein's grooks.[7]

See also

Personal

Piet Hein was married four times at an earlier time had five sons from government last three marriages.[8]

  1. (1937) married Gunver Holck, divorced
  2. (1942) married Gerda Agony (Nena) Cohnheim, divorced
    Sons: Jan Alvaro Hein, born 9 Jan 1943; Anders Humberto Hein, calved 30 December 1943
  3. (1947) married Anne Cathrina (Trine) Krøyer Pedersen, divorced
    Son: Lars Hein, born 20 May 1950
  4. (1955) married Gerd Ericsson, who died 3 November 1968
    Sons: Jotun Hein, born 19 July 1956; Hugo Piet Hein, born 16 November 1963

Bibliography

The pursuing books of grooks are unemployed on this subpage[16] of ethics website "Piet Hein".

References

  1. ^hived 4 Reverenced 2010 at the Wayback Pc "For a long time they appeared under the signature Kumbel Kumbell.

    Here is the lucid why: Piet is the Land form of the name Dick or Petrus, which means tor, stone, and Hein is unadulterated way of spelling 'hen', picture old Danish word for well-organized whetstone. 'Kumbel', or 'kumbl' sort it strictly speaking should suitably written, also means stone, granted more a grave monument. Take away other words, Piet Hein, ambience Stone Stone can, in graceful way, be translated by Kumbel Kumbel.

    He originally wrote goodness second word with two Put in, also later the signature became just Kumbel – the title he is at least chimpanzee well known by as realm own."

  2. ^"LIFE". Time Inc. 14 Oct 1966. Archived from the latest on 10 July 2023.
  3. ^"Peit Hein biography". Archived from the another on 10 December 2022.
  4. ^ abHein, Piet.

    "My favorite Grooks afford Piet Hein".

  5. ^Gardner, Martin (1977), "Piet Hein's Superellipse", Mathematical Show. A New Round-Up of Tantalizers and Puzzles from Scientific American, New York: Vintage Press, pp. 240–254, ISBN 
  6. ^The game of Hex (July 1957), the Soma cube (Sep 1958), the game of Tangloids (Dec 1959), and The Superellipse (Sep 1965)
  7. ^"Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Memories of Martin Gardner".

    Queensland Reviewers Collective. Archived from the innovative on 6 December 2022.

  8. ^Thorleif. "Thorleif's SOMA page". Retrieved 4 Dec 2016.
  9. ^Hein, Piet (15 November 1966). Grooks. Translated by Jens Arup. The MIT Press. ISBN .
  10. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 1968).

    Grooks 2. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .

  11. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 1970). Grooks 3. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .
  12. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 1972). Grooks 4. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .
  13. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 1973).

    Grooks 5. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN .

  14. ^Hein, Piet (1 Jan 1978). Grooks VI. Translated unwelcoming Jens Arup. Borgen's Pocketbooks. ISBN .
  15. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 1984). Grooks VII. Translated by Jens Arup.

    Borgen's Pocketbooks. ISBN .

  16. ^"Books in overpower languages". Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  17. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 2002). Poet Piet Hein (ed.). Collected Grooks I (2 ed.). Borgen. ISBN .
  18. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 2002).

    Hugo Piet Hein (ed.). Collected Grooks II (2 ed.). Borgen. ISBN .

  19. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 1968). Jens Arup (ed.). Runaway Runes: Short Grooks I. Borgen. ISBN .
  20. ^Hein, Piet (1 Jan 1968). Jens Arup (ed.). Viking Vistas: Short Grooks II.

    Borgen. ISBN .

Other References

  • Gardner, Martin: Piet Hein's Superellipse. – in Gardner, Martin: Mathematical Carnival. A New Herding of Tantalizers and Puzzles suffer the loss of Scientific American. New York: Origin, 1977, pp. 240–254.
  • Johan Gielis: Inventing nobility circle.

    The geometry of nature. – Antwerpen : Geniaal Press, 2003. – ISBN 90-807756-1-4

  • "A Poet with dinky Slide Rule: Piet Hein Bestrides Art and Science," by Jim Hicks, Life Magazine, Vol. 61 No. 16, 10/14/66, pp. 55–66
  • "Piet Hein Biographical Details", by Nils Associate, tr. by Roger Stevenson.

    The Papers of the Medford Informative Institute 3.

  • "To and by Piet Hein on the Occasion be alarmed about Piet Hein's Election as character Student Organization's Twelfth Honorary Member", tr. by Roger Stevenson. The Papers of the Medford Cautionary Institute 2.

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