Piet Hein
Puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
Died when: 90 years 123 days (1084 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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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.
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