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| + | * [http://www.piethein.com Piet Hein Homepage] | ||
| + | * [http://www.ctaz.com/~dmn1/hein.htm Notes on Piet Hein] | ||
| + | * [http://chat.carleton.ca/~tcstewar/grooks/grooks.html Grooks by Piet Hein] | ||
Revision as of 10:16, 16 February 2005
Piet Hein (1905-1996) was a Danish poet and mathematician, and the first inventor of Hex.
In Denmark, and in the rest of Scandinavia, he is most famous for his collections of short poems, which he called grooks. Most of them are written in Danish, but some he himself translated into English. The following is an example of these poems, which ought to be taken to heart by all Hex players.
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less
