Mathematics On Stamps

Macedonia
Summit for Information technology Society
October 16, 2004
The stamp shows binary code, the building block of modern information technology.

Italy
The 500th Anniversary of the Publication by Fra Luca Pacioli
April 13, 1994
Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (ca. 1447–1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, and collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci. The stamp commemorates his Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (Venice 1494), a textbook for use in the schools of Northern Italy.

Italy
World Mathematics Year
October 14, 2000
Geometry, universe, World Mathematics Year logo.

Croatia
World Mathematics Year
June 15, 2000
The design features the Blanuša snarks discovered by Croatian mathematician Danilo Blanuša (1903 - 1987).

Happy Birthday (September 15) to Catalan-Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer Esteban Terrades I Illa (1883-1950). Here is an image of a stamp honoring Terrades, engraved by Vicente Morant Flores (1965- ), and issued by Spain on July 24, 1985, Scott No. 2446, Edifil No. 2807, plus an image of a photograph of Esteban Terrades which was probably a model (in mirror-image) for this stamp's design.

- nethryk

Portugal
450th Anniversary of Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera
August 31, 2016
The book Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera was the works by Pedro Nunes from Alca#769;cer do Sal (1502 - 1578) and was first published in 1566 in Basel. It constitutes the most important work by the most renowned and influential Portuguese mathematicians of all time.

Happy Birthday to János Bolyai (1802-1860), a Hungarian mathematician who was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Bolyai, designed by Zoltán Nagy (1916-1987), printed by lithography, and issued by Hungary on November 6, 1960 to commemorate the mathematician's birth centenary, Scott No. 1321, plus an image of the portrait of János Bolyai which was the model for this stamp's design. Note: Although Ferenc Gáll (aka Gál) is indicated on this stamp as its engraver, I believe this attribution is incorrect, as no part of the design seems to me to be actually engraved.

- nethryk

Here's a twist to "Math on Stamps".....How about a mathematician on a cover?
It's only the front half of an envelope sent to Alonzo Church at an address on campus at Princeton University.

Belgium 2000

Nicaragua
Scientific Formula Set
Australia Stamp Monthly June 1971

Nicaragua set 1971

http://web.olivet.edu/~hathaway/Formula_s.html

Awesome!
Thanks, 22Crows...........

An adjunct to the first stamp, the Egyptians counting 1+1

We need to give applause to India, for giving us the Zero (nothing)
shown as a circle or a dot (Turkey stamps show the dot for Zero)
so important to numerical sequence

The Sunya

Greece
Hipparchus of Nicaea
October 21, 1965
Hipparchus of Nicaea (c 190 – c 120 B.C.) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry but is most famous for his incidental discovery of precession of the equinoxes.
The commemorative stamp depicts Hipparchus and his armillary sphere.

Greece
EUROPA - Europe and Discoveries
May 9, 1994
Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – c. 546 B.C.) was a pre-Socratic Greek/Phoenician philosopher, mathematician and astronomer from Miletus in Asia Minor. He used geometry to calculate the heights of pyramids and the distance of ships from the coast. The two earliest mathematical theorems, Thales' theorem and Intercept theorem, are attributed to him.