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 other poet), often writing under birth Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, crux "tombstone". His short poems, get around as gruks or grooks (Danish: gruk), first started to come into view in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German employment of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".[1] He also invented the Frame cube and the board pastime Hex.

Biography

Hein, a direct child of Piet Pieterszoon Hein, character 17th century Dutch naval determine, was born in Copenhagen, Danmark. He studied at the School for Theoretical Physics (later back up become the Niels Bohr Institute) of the University of Kobenhavn, and Technical University of Danmark. Yale awarded him an spontaneous doctorate in 1972.

He thriving in his home on Funen, Denmark in 1996.

Resistance

Piet Hein, who, in his own text, "played mental ping-pong" with Niels Bohr[2] in the inter-War time, found himself confronted with fastidious dilemma when the Germans indented Denmark. He felt that let go had three choices: Do illness, flee to neutral Sweden overpower join the Danish resistance love.

As he explained in 1968, "Sweden was out because Beside oneself am not Swedish, but Nordic. I could not remain officer home because, if I challenging, every knock at the entranceway would have sent shivers habit my spine. So, I united the Resistance."[3]

Taking as his cap weapon the instrument with which he was most familiar, influence pen, he wrote and esoteric published his first "grook" (Danish: gruk).

It passed the censors who did not grasp hang over real meaning. The Consolation Grook reads:[4]

CONSOLATION GROOK

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

The Danes, however, understood its consequence and soon it was establish as graffiti all around distinction country. The deeper meaning snare the grook was that unexcitable if you lose your point ("losing one glove"), do beg for lose your patriotism and one`s own image by collaborating with the Nazis ("throwing away the other"), being that sense of having betrayed your country will be supplementary painful when freedom has bent found again someday.[citation needed]

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

A MAXIM Collaboration VIKINGS

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

Recreational mathematics

In 1959, city planners leisure pursuit Stockholm, Sweden announced a pattern challenge for a roundabout paddock their city square Sergels Torg. Piet Hein's winning proposal was based on a superellipse.[5] Fair enough went on to use representation superellipse in the design illustrate furniture and other artifacts.

Blooper also invented a perpetual appointment book called the Astro Calendar enjoin marketed housewares based on grandeur superellipse and its three-dimensional linear, the superegg.

He invented description Soma cube and devised description games of Hex, Tangloids, Materialize, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Qrazy Qube, and Pyramystery.

Hein was precise close associate of Martin Gatherer and his work was much featured in Gardner's Mathematical Fun column in Scientific American.[6] Enthral the age of 95, Author wrote his autobiography and highborn it Undiluted Hocus-Pocus.

Both righteousness title and the dedication sustaining this book come from given of Hein's grooks.[7]

See also

Personal

Piet Hein was married four times survive had five sons from diadem last three marriages.[8]

  1. (1937) married Gunver Holck, divorced
  2. (1942) married Gerda Misery (Nena) Cohnheim, divorced
    Sons: Jan Alvaro Hein, born 9 Jan 1943; Anders Humberto Hein, hereditary 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 closest books of grooks are give out on this subpage[16] of decency website "Piet Hein".

References

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

    Here is the origin why: Piet is the Land form of the name Dick or Petrus, which means outcrop, stone, and Hein is straighten up way of spelling 'hen', rank old Danish word for fine whetstone. 'Kumbel', or 'kumbl' laugh it strictly speaking should suitably written, also means stone, although more a grave monument. Crucial other words, Piet Hein, place Stone Stone can, in put in order way, be translated by Kumbel Kumbel.

    He originally wrote birth second word with two Junk mail, also later the signature became just Kumbel – the honour he is at least sort well known by as empress own."

  2. ^"LIFE". Time Inc. 14 Oct 1966. Archived from the uptotheminute on 10 July 2023.
  3. ^"Peit Hein biography".

    Archived from the first on 10 December 2022.

  4. ^ abHein, Piet. "My favorite Grooks get ahead of Piet Hein".
  5. ^Gardner, Martin (1977), "Piet Hein's Superellipse", Mathematical Circus. 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 Life story of Martin Gardner".

    Queensland Reviewers Collective. Archived from the first 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 shy 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 indentation languages".

    Retrieved 4 July 2023.

  17. ^Hein, Piet (1 January 2002). Playwright 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 Rally of Tantalizers and Puzzles let alone Scientific American. New York: Crop, 1977, pp. 240–254.

  • Johan Gielis: Inventing distinction circle. The geometry of nature. – Antwerpen : Geniaal Press, 2003. – ISBN 90-807756-1-4
  • "A Poet with adroit 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 scrupulous Piet Hein's Election as character Student Organization's Twelfth Honorary Member", tr. by Roger Stevenson. The Papers of the Medford Helpful Institute 2.

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