Frases de Piet Hein

Piet Hein fue un ingeniero, escritor, artista, filósofo, diseñador e inventor danés. Es conocido especialmente por sus gruks, poesías filosóficas cortas[2]​ o aforismos escritas, originalmente bajo el seudónimo de Kumbel Kumbell, mientras estaba en la clandestinidad por haber presidido la Unión Anti-Nazi de su país justo antes de la ocupación de Dinamarca por los nazis en 1940 y publicadas en Politiken.[3]​

A principios de la década de 1930, patentó el Cubo Soma,[4]​ un rompecabezas de disección sólido y a principios de la década de 1940, inventó el abstracto Polygon, una versión del cual fue desarrollada de forma independiente por John Nash unos años más tarde. Tras haberlo presentado en una conferencia para matemáticos en la Universidad de Copenhagen durante un discurso sobre las matemáticas para juegos, Hein presentaba un problema a resolver para el juego dos veces a la semana en Politiken, durante cuatro meses .[5]​ El nombre Hex fue puesto por Parker Brothers en 1952 cuando lanzaron su versión del juego, Hex, como juego de tablero.[5]​

Aunque su nombre está también estrechamente relacionado con la superelipse, una figura geométrica incorporada por su amigo, el arquitecto sueco David Helldén, en el diseño para la plaza Sergel de Estocolmo a comienzos de la década de 1960, no fue Hein quien lo había creado, sino el matemático francés Gabriel Lamé. Hein incorporó esta figura también en su colaboración con el diseñador de muebles y arquitecto sueco Bruno Mathsson.[6]​

De 1948-1949 fue presidente de la sección danesa del World Movement for World Federal Government, el antecesor del actual Movimiento Federalista Mundial.[7]​

Había colaborado con Hendrik Casimir durante la estancia de este en Copenhagen en 1930[8]​ y sus amistades incluían a Albert Einstein y al matemático Norbert Wiener quien, a mediados de la década de 1960, terminó de preparar su libro Dios y Golem S.A. en casa de Hein en Rungsted, un barrio de Hørsholm.[9]​

Fue doctor honoris causa por las universidades de Yale[10]​ y Odense.[7]​

Era descendiente del almirante y corsario neerlandés Pieter Pietersen Heyn, también conocido como Piet Hein.[6]​[11]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 16. diciembre 1905 – 17. abril 1996
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Piet Hein Frases y Citas

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Piet Hein: Frases en inglés

“Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”

As quoted in Man Creates Art Creates Man (1973) by Duane Preble, p. 14
Variant translation: Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
As quoted in Architecture: form, space, and order (2007) by Francis D.K. Ching, p. ix
Contexto: After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

“But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.”

As quoted in Scandinavian Review (2003), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p. 18
Contexto: Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.

“Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment”

T.T.T. (Acronym in Danish: Ting Tager Tid)
Grooks
Contexto: p>Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishmentT. T. T.When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.</p

“Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields.”

As quoted in Man Creates Art Creates Man (1973) by Duane Preble, p. 14
Variant translation: Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
As quoted in Architecture: form, space, and order (2007) by Francis D.K. Ching, p. ix
Contexto: After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

“Those
that are looking
for nothing — will find it.”

Look And Thou Shalt Find
Grooks
Contexto: Foes
of what's cooking
see no worth behind it.
Those
that are looking
for nothing — will find it.

“Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over.”

As quoted in Scandinavian Review (2003), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p. 18
Contexto: Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.

“Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.”

What Love Is Like
Grooks

“Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.”

The Road to Wisdom?
Grooks
Contexto: The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.

“The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.”

Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth
Grooks

“The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.”

Nothing Is Indespensable : Grook to warn the universe against megalomania
Grooks

“Co-existence
or no existence.”

That Is The Question : Hamlet Anno Domini
Grooks

“Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.”

The Final Touch : Portrait of nobody in particular
Grooks

“Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.”

Consolation Grook, his first grook, published in Politiken (April 1940) as translated in Grooks (1966)
Grooks

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