Mathematicians & Mathematics on Stamps

This page has a listing of mathematics on stamps. The connections to mathematics range from those individuals who are clearly thought of as mathematicians, to those for whom the connection is much weaker. It is interesting to see which countries honor mathematicians and scientists by placing them on their stamps.

Mathematicians and Mathematics on Stamps
Mathematician Stamp ...&... Mathematics Stamp

Abel

Abacus

Aiken

Binary

Al-Biruni

Binomial

Al-Farabi

Borromean Rings

Alhazen

Census

Al Kashi

Computing Machines

Al-Khowarizmi

Diagrams

Al Kindi

Fibonacci, Phi - Golden Ratio

Al Zarqali

Fields Medals

Archimedes

Formulas

Aristarchus

Fractals

Aristotle

Games

Atanasoff

Gazeta Matematica

Avicenna

Graphs

Babbage

Latin Squares

Baker, Alan

Magic Squares

Balmes

Maps and Globes

Banach, Stefan

Mathematical Congress

Banneker

Mathematics Olympiad

Beg, Ulugh

Math Year

Bernoulli

Metric

Bessel

Moebius Strips

Bjerknes

Optical Illusions

Bolzano

Pi

Boscovich, Ruggero

Polyhedron

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de

Stamp Shapes

Bolyai, Farkas

Sine Wave

Bolyai, Janos

Statistical Congress

Brouwer

Statistics, General

Brunelleschi

Miscellaneous

Buffon

Caratheodory

Cauchy

Cavailles, Jean

Cech

Chaplygin

Chebyshev

Chongzhi

Comte

Condorcet

Connes, Alain

Copernicus, Nicolaus

Cusa, Nicolaus of

D'Alembert

Da Vinci

Dedekind

Demoncritus

Descartes, Rene

Dodgson, Charles

Donaldson, Simon

Drinfeld, Vladimir

Duhem, Pierre

Durer, Albrecht

Einstein, Albert

Escalante, Jaime

Escher, M.C.

Euclid

Euler, Leonard

Fermat

Franklin, Benjamin

Frisius

Galileo Galilei

Galois

Garfield, James

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

Gerbert of Aurillac

Germain, Sophie

Ghetaldi

Gmunden, Johannes

Hadamard, Jacques

Hamilton, William Rowan

Haret

Helmholtz

Heng

Hipparchus

Hronec

Huygens, Christiaan

Ibn Hazm

Janiszewski

Jarnik

Jefferson, Thomas

Jingrun

Jungius

Keldysh

Kepler

Khayyam

Kovalevskaya

Krylov

Lagrange

Laplace

Lasker

Lavrentyev

Leibniz, Gottfried

Lobachevsky, Nikolai

Lorenz, Edward

Lully

Lyapunov, Aleksandr

Magnus

Maupertuis

Meyer

Monge

Newton, Issac

Nightingale, Florence

Nunes, Pedro

Okounkov, Andrei

Pacioli, Luca

Pascal, Blaise

Petrovsky

Petzval

Poincare

Pythagoras

Quetelet

Qinglai, Xiong

Ramanujan

Riese

Russell

Severi

Sierpinski

Thales

Titeica

Torricelli

Turing

Von Neumann

Wiener

Zaremba


Links to other sites that connect Mathematics to Stamps


Jeff Miller's Mathematical Stamps website
Wake Forest Mathematical Stamp Collecting
European Mathematics stamps
Russian and Soviet Union Mathematics stamps
Thomas Jahre page on Mathematics stamps


Links to other sites that involve stamp collecting


Home Hobbies: Stamp Collecting website

Links to other sites relating to the history of the Post Office


The Second Continental Congress and the U.S. Postal System