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Author: Robin J. Wilson

  • Year: 2001
  • Publisher: Springer
  • City: New York
  • Edition: Hardcover
  • Language: English
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"If you are interested in the beauty of mathematics, you must go out and buy Robin Wilson's absolutely stunning book of mathematical stamps, a book which traces the history of mathematics through images on the postage of countries around the globe."

- Victor Katz, MAA Online

Postage stamps are an attractive vehicle for presenting mathematics and its development. For many years the author has presented illustrated lectures entitled Stamping through Mathematics to school and college groups and to mathematical clubs and societies, and has written a regularStamps Cornerfor The Mathematical Intelligencer. The book contains almost four-hundred postage stamps relating to mathematics, ranging from the earliest forms of counting to the modern computer age. The stamps appear enlarged and in full color with full historical commentary, and are listed at the end of the book.
Удивительное разнообразие и красота математических элементов в дизайне марок воплощены в жизнь в этой коллекции из более чем 350 марок, иллюстрированных математическими фигурами, людьми и содержанием, каждая из которых воспроизведена в увеличенном формате, в полном цвете. Это идеальная подарочная книга для всех, кто интересуется марками или удивительным использованием математики в реальном мире. Автор широко известен в математическом сообществе своей регулярной колонкой о марках в журнале The Mathematical Intelligencer
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