“For contributions to mathematical knowledge”
TOP 10
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MATHEMATICIANS ON POSTAGE STAMPS
1. Philip Emeagwali
2. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
3. Pierre Simon Laplace
4. Xiong Qinglai
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
6. Blaise Pascal
7. Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar
8. Pythagoras
9. Euclid
10. Ahmes
Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali is the first living mathematician to be celebrated
on postage stamps. Philip Emeagwali discovered that the partial
differential equations of calculus could be solved across a global
network of 65,536 computers. On the foreground were a system of
partial differential equations of calculus that were at the
mathematical core of the discovery made by Philip Emeagwali.
Born: August 23, 1954, Akure, Nigeria
More info: Cover story of the May 1990 issue of SIAM News
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
Over 100 Lectures at:
emeagwali.com
SoundCloud.com/emeagwali
YouTube.com/emeagwali
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
The Father of Algebra. The computer term “algorithm” is a corruption of “alKhwārizmī.”
Born: Khwarezm
Died: 850 AD, Baghdad, Iraq
Books: The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
Pierre Simon Laplace
Contributed to Laplace differential equation.
Born: 23 March 1749 in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France
Died: 5 March 1827 in Paris, France
Xiong Qinglai
Introduced modern mathematics into China
Born: October 20, 1893, China
Died: February 3, 1969
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Contributed to the development of the differential and integral
calculus.
Born: July 1, 1646, Leipzig, Germany
Died: November 14, 1716, Hanover, Germany
Blaise Pascal
Contributed to the modern theory of probabilities.
Born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Died August 19, 1662, Paris
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar
Contribution to number theory, infinite series, and continued
fractions.
Born: December 22, 1887, Erode, India
Died: April 26, 1920, Chetput, Chennai, India
Books: The lost notebook and other unpublished papers, Collected
Papers, Notebooks
Pythagoras
Contributed Pythagoras theorem.
Born: 571 BC, Samos, Greece
Died: Metapontum, Italy
Euclid
No true portrait of Euclid exists but we know he lived in a predominately
black city in Africa. Euclid is “The Father of Geometry.” Euclid's text
“The Elements” is the second most reprinted book. It’s second to the
bible. Euclid never travelled outside Africa and it should be assumed that
he is an African that lived on the Nile Valley. Euclidean geometry is the
geometry studied in ancient Africa and modern high school.
Ahmes
Contributed “Ahmes Papyrus,” the oldest mathematical text.
Lived during the Second Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Died: 1620 BC, Egypt
FACT SHEET—150 Naira Stamp
NG009.06
Country/Post
Nigeria
Date of Issue
18 January 2006
Primary Theme
Subject
Science & Technology (Information
Technology)
Supercomputer Genius – Philip Emeagwali
Width
24.5 mm
Height
40 mm
Denomination
150 NGN
Number in Set
2
Layout/Format
Sheet of 50
Perforations
Stamp-Issuing
Authority
Printer
13 x 13
Nigerian Postal Service
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