domingo, 21 de setembro de 2014

Os selos Philamat - temas

1.    Mathematics: a philatelic history
2.    Ten mathematical formulas . . .
3.    Counting on the fingers
4.    Ancient mathematics
5.    Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece
6.    Egyptian pyramids
7.    Egyptian mathematics    
8.    Mesopotamian mathematics
9.    Thales and Pythagoras
10.    The Pythagorean theorem   
11.    Athens 400 BC
12.    Plato’s Academy   
13.    Alexandria 300 BC - AD 415
14.    Euclid of Alexandria
15.    Archimedes   
16.    Greek astronomy   
17.    China
18.    Chinese mathematics   
19.    India   
20.    Mayans and Incas   
21.    Ancient games
22.    Chess
23.    The game of Go
24.    Islamic scientists
25.    Al-Khwarizmi
26.    Alhazen and Omar Khayyam
27.    Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
28.    Islamic Europe   
29.    Samarkand: al-Kashani and Ulugh Beg
30.    Early European scholars
31.    Fibonacci     of Pisa
32.    The growth of learning   
33.    The invention of printing
34.    Perspective
35.    Albrecht Dürer
36.    Portuguese navigation   
37.    The age of exploration   
38.    Globes
39.    Map-making   
40.    Pedro Nunes
41.    Navigational instruments
42.    Quadrants, sextants and octants
43.    Nicolaus Copernicus
44.    Tycho Brahe
45.    Johannes Kepler
46.    Galileo Galilei
47.    Reforming the calendar
48.    The low countries
49.    Logarithms
50.    Early calculating devices   
51.    China and Japan
52.    René Descartes
53.    Mersenne and Fermat
54.    Blaise Pascal
55.    Isaac Newton
56.    Newton’s gravitation
57.    Halley’s comet
58.    Leibniz and Bernoulli
59.    Leonhard Euler
60.    The shape of the earth
61.    Longitude
62.    The New World   
63.    Developments in France
64.    The French Revolution   
65.    The Ecole Polytechnique
66.    Carl Friedrich Gauss
67.    New geometries
68.    Abel and Galois
69.    William Rowan Hamilton
70.    Russia
71.    Eastern Europe
72.    Statistics
73.    Mathematical physics
74.    The nature of light
75.    Albert Einstein
76.    Quantum theory
77.    The turn of the century
78.    The 20th century
79.    Fractal geometry
80.    Pioneers of computing   
81.    The development of computing
82.    Bletchley Park codebreakers
83.    Computer art and graphics
84.    International Congresses (ICM)
85.    ICM 2014, Seoul, South Korea
86.    Fields medallists
87.    World Mathematical Year 2000
88.    Mathematics in nature
89.    Mathematics in art
90.    Op art
91.    The geometry of space
92.    Mathematical recreations
93.    Mathematics education
94.    Metrication   
95.    Triangular stamps
96.    Polygons
97.    Circles and ellipses
98.    Stamping through mathematics

sexta-feira, 12 de setembro de 2014

Stamping through Mathematics


Further information about these and other mathematical stamps can be found in Robin J. Wilson’s book Stamping through Mathematics (Springer, New York, 2001) or in his Stamp Corners in The Mathematical Intelligencer.

Círculos e elipses



[France 1998, 1999; Isle of Man 1997, Singapore 1997; Sierra Leone 1969; Tonga 1969]

Polígonos



[Indonesia 1997; Malaysia 1970; Malta 1968; Monaco 1955; Netherlands 1993; Pakistan 1976; Pitcairn Islands 1999; Thessaly 1898]

Selos triangulares



[Austria 1916; Colombia 1869; Ghana 1965; Malaysia 1966; Pakistan 1962]

Sistema métrico



 [Australia 1973; Brazil 1962; Ghana 1976; Pakistan 1974; Romania 1966]

Educação matemática



 [British Virgin Islands 1996; Guinea-Bissau 1980; Maldive Islands 1970; Portugal 2009; Russia 1961; St Lucia 1990; Swaziland 1984]