Mathematics on stamps

Typically such stamps may depict a mathematically related object or instrument, e.g. an astrolabe or a slide rule.

Some countries have also issued stamps depicting internationally famous mathematicians such as Isaac Newton[10] or Albert Einstein.

Examples are shown in the gallery above: a 1955 Greek stamp illustrating the Pythagorean theorem, a 1967 Brazilian stamp illustrating a Möbius strip and also commemorating the 6th Brazilian mathematical congress, a 1977 West German stamp illustrating the complex plane and also commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of Carl Gauss, and a 1998 German stamp illustrating squaring a rectangle and also commemorating an International Mathematical Congress.

Examples are shown in the gallery above: a 1966 Soviet stamp illustrating the integral, summation and union symbols and also commemorating an International Mathematical Congress, a 2000 Russian stamp illustrating the pi,[12] function and summation symbols and commemorating the life of Nikolai Luzin, a 2016 Czech stamp illustrating Fermat's Last Theorem and commemorating Andrew Wiles's 1995 proof, and a 2023 Serbian stamp illustrating the Fibonacci sequence and commemorating the 75th anniversary of Mathematical Society of Serbia.

[3] William L. Schaaf published a paper,[17] later expanded into a book entitled Mathematics and science: an adventure in postage stamps in 1978.