There are many hundreds of postage stamps relating to mathematics, ranging
from the earliest forms of counting to the modern computer age. In
these pages you will meet many of the mathematicians who contributed to
this story—influential figures such as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Newton and
Einstein—and will learn about those areas, such as navigation, astronomy
and art, whose study aided this development. Each topic appears on a double
page, with a commentary on the left and enlarged stamp images on the
right. A list of the featured stamps appears at the end of the book.
This book is written for anyone interested in mathematics and its applications.
Although parts of it assume some knowledge of school or college level mathematics,
I hope that much of it will be of interest to readers without this background.
In particular, I hope that it will also attract a philatelic readership.