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COLLECTORS

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Name Country Homepage Wantlist List of Doubles
Manfred Börgens Germany Yes
Tuvi Etzion Israel
Oliver Faulhaber Germany Yes Yes Yes
Norbert Gengler Luxembourg Yes
Gunnar Gjone Norway (currently US)
Hung Bui England Yes
Bert Jagers Netherlands Yes
Thomas Jahre Germany Yes
Jeff Miller USA Yes
John Oberman Israel Yes
Arnauld Pascal France
David Stone England Yes Yes
Magnus Waller Sweden Yes




LITERATURE

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- Boyer: Philately and Mathematics, Scripta Mathematica 15/1949.

- van Dijk: Mathematelie.

- Gjone, Gunnar: Mathematikhistorie i miniatyr, 1996.

- Larsen: Mathematics and Philately, American Mathematical Monthly 60/1953.

- Larsen: Mathematics on Stamps, Mathematics Teacher Nov. 1955.

- Schaaf: Mathematics in the Classroom, Mathematics Teacher Jan. 1974.

- Schaaf, William L.: Mathematics and Science. An Adventure in Postage Stamps, 1978.

- Schreiber: Die Mathematik und ihre Geschichte im Spiegel der Philatelie, 101 p., 1980, BSB B.G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft. Small book with 16 color pages, gives mainly a brief history of mathematics (from a kind of "east" point of view, since it was published in the former German Democratic Republic). One of its highlights is a complete list of all "mathematical" stamps issued so far.

- Wilson, Robin: Stamping through mathematics, Springer, 2001, ISBN 0-387-98949-8. Contains almost 400 postage stamps related to mathematics with additional historical commentary.

- Wilson, Robin: in The Mathematical Intelligencer (regular column, see below).

- Wussing, H. / Remane, H.: Wissenschaftsgeschichte en miniature, 1989.




ROBIN WILSONS column

Robin Wilson is the editor of the regular column "Stamps Corner" in the magazine Mathematical intelligencer. In the 3rd and 4th issue of Volume 2 pictures of mathematical stamps appeared for the first time and five years later Wilsons column was established. From Volume 7 Number 2 until Volume 8 Number 4 the column was part of the section "Old Intelligencer", since then it was published on its own.


Volume Number Topic Volume Number Topic
07 (1985)     08 (1986) 1 (Lgrange/Laplace)
2 (Euler/Dedekind) 2 (Hamilton/d'Alembert)
3 (Bessel/Khwarizimi) 3 (Banach/Napier)
4 (Archimedes/Pythagoras) 4 (Galois/Chebyshev)
09 (1987) 1 (Poincare/Kovalevsky) 10 (1988) 1 (Hipparchus/Zhang Heng/Zu Chong-Zhi)
2 (Quipu/Ljapunov) 2 (Kepler/Russell)
3 (Bolyai/Lobachevsky/Ramanujan) 3 (Pascal/Descartes)
4 Newton on Stamps 4 (Monge/Buffon)
11 (1989) 1 (Euklid/Hipparchus) 12 (1990) 1 Graphs on Stamps
2 (Nicaraguan set "Formulas that changed the world") 2 Computer-Designed Stamps
3 Mathematics in the Low Countries 3 International Congress of Mathematicians
4 Mathematics Education 4 Czech and Slovak Mathematics
13 (1991) 1 Impossible Figures 14 (1992) 1 Probability and Statistics (1750-1850)
2 19th-Century Analysis 2 Polish Mathematics
3 Mathematics in the 17th Century 3 Greek Mathematics I
4 Computing on Stamps 4 Greek Mathematics II
15 (1993) 1 Greek Mathematics III - Archimedes 16 (1994) 1 Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy II
2 Greek Mathematics IV - The School of Alexandria 2 Russian Mathematics I
3 Metrication 3 Russian Mathematics II
4 Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy I 4 Swiss Mathematics
17 (1995) 1 Renaissance Mathematics Textbooks 18 (1996) 1 Mathematical Physics III
2 Jurij Vega - Slovenian Mathematics 2 One-dimensional Space Groups
3 Mathematical Physics I 3 Irish Mathematics
4 Mathematical Physics II 4 1996 Anniversaries
19 (1997) 1 Abel 20 (1998) 1 Chinese Mathematics I
2 Stamps of Unusual Shape I 2 Chinese Mathematics II
3 Stamps of Unusual Shape II 3 Isaac Newton
4 Mathematical Prizes 4 Spinning Tops
21 (1999) 1 Egyptian Mathematics 22 (2000) 1 Renaissance Art
2 International Congress of Mathematics 2 Mathematics and Art II: Albrecht Dürer
3 Roman Numerals 3 Mathematics and Art III
4 Calendars 4 Indian Mathematics
23 (2001) 1 Romanian Mathematics 24 (2002) 1  
2 World Mathematical Year 2000 2  
3   3  
4   4  




ON-LINE DEALERS

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- Briefmarken Jansen (Germany)

- Briefmarken Hiti (Austria)





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- The Stamp Trader List

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Last update: 14 Nov 2008.