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Piet Hein

1905 - 1996

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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". He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Piet Hein is the 213th most popular mathematician (up from 231st in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 152nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Piet Hein ranks 213 out of 1,004. Before him are Arthur Cayley, Maria Reiche, Henry Briggs, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Paul Guldin, and Robert Grosseteste. After him are Peter Tait, Élie Cartan, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Pierre Bouguer, Thomas Abbt, and Hermann Schwarz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Piet Hein ranks 50. Before him are Franz Ziereis, Enrique Ballestrero, Angelo Schiavio, Takashi Shimura, Lale Andersen, and Jean-Marie Villot. After him are Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Joseph Cotten, Ivan Serov, Pedro Petrone, Kurt Gerstein, and Daniil Kharms. Among people deceased in 1996, Piet Hein ranks 56. Before him are Ernesto Geisel, P. L. Travers, Nicu Ceaușescu, František Plánička, Timothy Leary, and Koichi Oita. After him are Georges Duby, Victor Ambartsumian, Obdulio Varela, Pat Brown, Rafael Kubelík, and Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Piet Hein ranks 139 out of 1,032. Before him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), Giancarlo Esposito (1958), and Richard Møller Nielsen (1937). After him are Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), Theophil Hansen (1813), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), and Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1485).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Denmark

Among mathematicians born in Denmark, Piet Hein ranks 2. Before him are Harald Bohr (1887). After him are Georg Mohr (1640), Johan Jensen (1859), Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Julius Petersen (1839), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), and Poul Heegaard (1871).

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