Mathematics On Stamps

Germany - 1955
Sc.725

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics.



Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians

(Stamp engraved by Leon Schnell)

To thestamp, thanks for the kind words. I teach Algebra 1, Geometry, ESL Geometry, Algebra 2, AP Stats, Computer Programming, AP Computer Science Principles, Video Game Design, AND Robtics at a local high school. I love math and stamps!

France
Scientists
February 17, 1958
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.

Germany
Adam Riese
March 28, 1959
Adam Riese (aka Adam Ries) (1492 - 1559) was a German mathematician. He is best known for his textbooks on arithmetics and algebra: Rechnung auff der linihen (1518), Rechnung auff der linihen und Federn (1522), Coss (1525), Rechenung nach der lenge, auff den Linihen vnd Feder (1550), among others.

Another stamp dedicated to Adam Riese

Germany - 1992
Sc.1748

Happy Birthday to Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)! Here are images of the two stamps in a set commemorating the 480th anniversary of the astronomer's birth, and issued by Poland on May 22, 1953, Scott Nos. 578 & 579.

- nethryk

"Copernicus watching the heavens," designed and engraved by Boguslaw Brandt (1909-1983) after a painting by Polish artist Jan Alojzy Matejko (1838-1893), plus an image of Matejko's original work of art.


Nicolaus Copernicus, designed by Polish illustrator Jan Marcin Szancer (1902-1973), and engraved by Stefan Lukaszewski (1918-2002).

USSR - 1961
Sc.2531

Soviet Youth
Studying Trigonometry

Hungary
The 250th Anniversary of the Death of Isaac Newton
March 31, 1977
Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time. The commemorative stamp shows a sketch of him in front of a diagram depicting his work on optics. The attached label shows a rocket and Newton's diagram from Principia Mathematica illustrating the principle of orbits in space.

France
Charity Stamps
June 11, 1955
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 – 1827) was a prominent French scholar whose work was important to the development of mathematics, statistics, physics, and astronomy. His Laplace's equation and the Laplace transform appears in many branches of mathematical physics. His work on the theory of probability and statistics is considered pioneering and has influenced a new generation of mathematicians.

Switzerland
International Congress of Mathematicians
March 15, 1994
Jacob Bernoulli (1655 - 1705) was a prominent Swiss mathematician. He is best known for his work in probability, where he was the first to derive a version of the Law of large numbers. He is also known for his numerous contributions to calculus.
The design shows a portrait of Bernoulli together with a formula and a graphics related to his Law of large numbers.

Romania
The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Grigore Moisil
January 27, 2006
Grigore Constantin Moisil (1906 - 1973) was a Romanian mathematician and computer pioneer. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic, algebraic logic, MV-algebra, and differential equations. The IEEE Computer Society awarded him posthumously the Computer Pioneer Award in 1996.

France
Scientists Series
February 17, 1958
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811 – 1877) was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics. He is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.
The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. Le Verrier gave his calculations to astronomer Johann Gottried Galle at the Berlin Observatory, and Galle was able to observe the planet within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th Century science.

Portugal
The 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Pedro Nunes
March 6, 2002
Pedro Nunes (1502 – 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician and cosmographer. He is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time. He is best known for his application of mathematics to nautical sciences (navigation and cartography).

Hungary
Janos Neumann
August 3, 1992
John von Neumann (1903 - 1957) was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist. He made major contributions to a number of fields including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics. He contributed to the use of memory in digital computers to store both sequences of instructions and data.

Slovenia
EUROPA - Great Discoveries
April 22, 1994
Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega (1754 – 1802) was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer. He is well known for his series of books of logarithm tables, integrals and other useful formulae between 1783 and 1797. His major work Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus was first published 1794 in Leipzig.