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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piet Hein has received more than 21,391 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Piet Hein is the 231st most popular mathematician (down from 202nd in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 135th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Piet Hein ranks 231 out of 1,004. Before him are Israel Gelfand, Pierre Varignon, L. E. J. Brouwer, S. R. Ranganathan, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, and Élie Cartan. After him are Joseph Petzval, Seymour Papert, Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Eduard Heine, and Isaac Beeckman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Piet Hein ranks 65. Before him are Heinz Lammerding, Dolores del Río, Sebastian Shaw, Erich Naumann, Emílio Garrastazu Médici, and Barnett Newman. After him are Sada Abe, Wolfram Sievers, Pedro Petrone, Clara Bow, Gareth Jones, and Guy Mollet. Among people deceased in 1996, Piet Hein ranks 64. Before him are Obdulio Varela, María Casares, Brigitte Helm, Helmut Schön, Hideo Sakai, and Hans Blumenberg. After him are Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Leonor Fini, Virginia Henderson, Spiro Agnew, Bob Paisley, and Toru Takemitsu.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Piet Hein ranks 152 out of 1,032. Before him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), Giancarlo Esposito (1958), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Thorvald Stauning (1873), and Anne Sophie Reventlow (1693). After him are Ulrich Salchow (1877), Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (1912), Torben Ulrich (1928), Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968), Verner Panton (1926), and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659).

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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 Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Julius Petersen (1839), Georg Mohr (1640), Johan Jensen (1859), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), and Poul Heegaard (1871).

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