Mathematician:Piet Hein

Mathematician
Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, author and poet) best known for his short poems, known as gruks or grooks.

Nationality
Danish

History

 * Born: 16 December 1905 in Copenhagen, Denmark
 * Died: 17 April 1996 in Funen, Denmark

Theorems and Definitions

 * Superellipse
 * Superegg


 * The Game of Hex
 * The Soma Cube
 * The Game of Tangloids

Publications

 * 1940 -- 1963: Grooks (20 volumes)
 * 1968: Runaway Runes: Short Grooks 1
 * 1968: Grooks 2
 * 1970: Grooks 3
 * 1973: Grooks 4
 * 1973: Grooks 5
 * 1996: Grooks 6
 * 1984: Grooks 7

Notable Quotes

 * Problems worthy of attack
 * prove their worth by hitting back
 * -- quoted as an epigraph to