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| | Piet Hein (Denmark) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 17, 1996) was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". |
 | | He was a direct descendant of Piet Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century. |
 | | He is known to a wider public for his thousands of short, aphoristic poems called Grooks (Gruk in Danish) and creations like the games of Hex, Tangloids, Morra, Tower, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Qrazy Qube, Pyramystery, and the Soma cube. |
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