Jefferson, Thomas (1743 - 1826)

Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America was not a mathematician but did have strong connections to mathematics.He was strongly influenced by Professor of Mathematics William Small at William and Mary College.He contibuted in raising the educational importance of mathematics at the University of Virginia. As a politician he proposed a method of apportionament that was actually used in the early years of the United States.


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Stamp Description
United States, 9c, 1922
scott: 561 A164
United States, 3c, 1938
Scott: 807 A279
United States, 2c, 1954
scott: 1033 A480
United States, 1c, 1965
Scott: 1278 A710
United States, 10c, 1973
Scott: 1510 A924
United States, 29c, 1986
Scott: 2185 A1567