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Home > About Us > Exhibits > Sci-Philately > Math & Computation

Mathematics & Computation

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION STAMPS I

from Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Finger Counting - Nicaragua 877#.
Quipu - Rwanda 603
Pythagoras - Greece 583#; Nicaragua C762#.
Archimedes - Italy 2373 (World Mathematical Year 2000)
Tsu Ch'ung Chi - P. R. China 246.
al-Khwarizmi - USSR 5176#.
Pacioli - Italy 1978
Riese - Germany 799#.
Nunes -Portugal 2474-6
Napier - Nicaragua C761#; Romania 1159-60.
Kepler - Dahomey C142.
Stella octangula - Japan 2060 (ICM 2000)
Fermat - Czech Republic 3122; France 2836

#For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Jeff Miller's Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

%For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Joachim Reinhardt's Physics-Related Stamps

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION: Part I

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION STAMPS II

from Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Leibniz - Germany 926#, 1933.
Newton - Germany 1771%, Great Britain 1172-1175 .
Bernoulli - Switzerland 581
Euler - German Democratic Republic 353, Switzerland B267#.
Goldbach (conjecture) - PRC 2982 (Cheng Jing-run)
Monge - France 2232a
Lagrange - France 869%.

#For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Jeff Miller's Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

%For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Joachim Reinhardt's Physics-Related Stamps

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION: Part II

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION STAMPS III

from Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Mathematical Congress - Finland 612
Gauss - Germany 725#, 1246#; DDR 1811.
Cauchy - France 2176#.
Galois - France B564#
Lobachevsky - Russia 1822#.
Bessel - Germany 1422#.
Moebius - Brazil 1053#.
Babbage - Great Britain 1361#.
Abel - Norway 824,145#
Hamilton - Ireland 562, 127#.

#For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Jeff Miller's Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION: Part III

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION STAMPS IV

from Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Kovalevskaya - Russia 1570#.
Chebychev - Russia 1051#.
Ramanujan - India 369#.
Sierpinski - Poland 2543; Finland 1140c, Hungary 3535.
Zaremba - Poland 2542.
Banach - Poland 2545.
Janiszewski - Poland 2544.
International Congress of Mathematicians 1980 - Austria 1187(Escher's impossible cube)
International Congress of Mathematicians 1998 Germany 2010

#For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Jeff Miller's Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION: Part IV




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