A retired mathematics teacher, Jeff Miller, has a beautiful website called Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps to honor mathematicians and scientists. We have curated 436 of those beautiful stamps of mathematicians and scientists to show you one of the most significant directories on the internet. We hope you enjoy it!
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Issued by the German Democratic Republic.
Leonhard Euler
Issued by Switzerland in 2007 on the 300th anniversary of his birth, Apr. 15, 2007.
Rene Descartes
Issued by Monaco in 1996 on his 400th birth anniversary.
Ali Kuşçu
Ala al-Din Ali ibn Muhammed, known as Ali Qushji, Latin: Ali Kushgii. Issued by Turkey in 2009.
Sophie Germain
Issued by France on March 18, 2016.
Al-Khowarizmi
Issued by Uzbekistan in 2012.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Issued by Portugal in 2000.
Augustin Cauchy
Issued by France on Nov. 10, 1989, the 200th birthday.
Pierre Simon Laplace
Issued by Liechtenstein in 2014.
John von Neumann
Issued by Hungary in 2003 on the centennnial of his birth.
Richard Dedekind
Issued by the German Democratic Republic on May 5, 1981, one of a series of six stamps, “Important Persons”.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by the Marshall Islands in 2012.
Thales
Issued by Mozambique in 2010.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Grenada in 2000.
Omar Khayyam
Issued by Guyana.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Issued by Liechtenstein in 2014.
Xiong Qinglai
Issued by China in 1994.
William Rowan Hamilton
Issued by Ireland on Mar. 14, 2005, to commemorate the World Year of Physics and on the bicentennial year of his birth.
Waclaw Sierpinski
Issued by Poland on Nov. 23, 1982, part of a series “Mathematicians”.
Vladimir Drinfeld
Issued by Guinea in 2008.
Vladimir Andreevich Steklov
Issued by Russia in 2014.
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Issued by Norway on March 14, 1962, on his 100th birthday.
Umirzak Sultangazin
Issued by Kazakhstan in 2011.
Ulugh Beg
Issued by the Soviet Union on Oct. 8, 1987, part of a series “Important Persons”.
Thomas Harriot
Issued by Guinea in 2009.
Thabit İbn-Qurra
Personally designed.
Stefan Banach
Issued by Poland on Nov. 23, 1982, part of a series “Mathematicians”.
Stanislaw Zarembe
Issued by Poland on Nov. 23, 1982, part of a series “Mathematicians”.
Simon Donaldson
Issued by Guinea in 2008.
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Issued by Vatican City in 2011.
Rene Descartes
Issued by France on June 9, 1937, in commemoration of the third centenary of the publication of Discours de la Méthode (shows “Discours sur la Méthode”).
Pythagoras
Issued by Switzerland in 1983.
Pierre Simon Laplace
Issued by Guinea in 2008.
Pierre De Fermat
Issued by France in 2001 on the 400th anniversary of his birth.
Pedro Nunes
Issued by Portugal Aug. 9, 1978. The first shows “Nonio” navigational instrument and diagram from Tratado da Rumaçao do Globo.
Pedro Nunes
Issued by Portugal in March 2002 on the 500th anniversary of his birth: the stamps only.
Otto Yulevich Schmidt
Issued by the Soviet Union in 1980.
Zygmunt Janiszewski
Issued by Poland on Nov. 23, 1982, part of a series “Mathematicians”.
Orymbek Zhautykov
Issued by Kazakhstan in 2011.
Omar Khayyam
Issued by Dubai.
Omar Khayyam
Issued by Dubai.
Nobert Wiener
Issued by Israel on April 18, 1999, part of a series of stamps to honor the Jewish contribution to world culture in the modern era.
Nobert Wiener
Issued by Tatarstan in 2006.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin
Issued by Russia in 2000.
Niels Henrik Abel
Issued by Norway on June 5, 2002, on the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Nasir al-Din Al-Tusi
Issued by Dominica.
Nasir al-Din Al-Tusi
Issued by Azerbaijan in 2001.
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh
Issued by Russia in 2011.
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh
Issued by the Soviet Union in 1980.
Mission of La Condamine, Maupertius and Others (1736)
Issued by Finland in 1986.
Max Euwe
Issued by Yugoslavia in 1995.
Max Born
Personally designed in 2012.
Matteo Ricci
Issued by Vatican City in 2010.
Matteo Ricci
Issued by Vatican City in 2010.
Matteo Ricci
Issued by Macau in 2006.
Matteo Ricci
Issued by Italy in 2002.
Louis Antoine de Bouginville
Issued by New Hebrides.
Louis Antoine de Bouginville
Issued by New Caledonia in 1928.
Louis Antoine de Bouginville
Issued by France in 1988.
Leonhard Euler
Issued by the Soviet Union on Apr. 17, 1957, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Euler’s birth.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss currency.
Leonhard Euler
Issued by the German Democratic Republic on Sept. 6, 1983, on the 200th annniversary of his death.
Rene Descartes
Issued by Albania in 1996. This stamp apparently features a misspelling of the Latin form of Descartes, which should be Cartesius.
Laurent Schwartz
Issued by Guinea in 2008.
Jurij Vega
Issued by Slovenia in 1994.
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Issued by the United States in 2005.
Isaac Newton
Issued by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1993.
John von Neumann
Issued by Hungary in 1992.
John von Neumann
Issued by Tatarstan in 2006.
John von Neumann
Issued by the United States in 2005.
John Charles Fields
Issued by Guinea in 2008.
John C. Adams
Issued by Djibouti in 2010.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Chad in 2015.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Guinea in 2008.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Chad in 2009.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Guinea-Bissau in 2008.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Sierra Leone.
Thales
Issued by Greece in 1994.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Romania in 1983.
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Bank notes issued by Croatia in 1991.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Sierra Leone in 1991.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Comoros in 1980.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Grenada in 1991.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Mali in 1980.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Dahomey in 1971.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Fujeira in 1971.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Fujeira in 1971.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Fujeira in 1971.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Fujeira in 1971.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Fujeira in 1971.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Comoros in 1988.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Hungary in 1980.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by the Kingdom of Yemen in 1969.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Ecuador.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Benin in 1980.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Romania in 1971.
Johann Andreas Segner
Issued by Hungary in 1974.
Johann Andreas Segner
Issued by Slovakia in 1994.
Jean Baptiste le Rond D’Alembert
Issued by France on June 13, 1959, part of a series Famous Frenchmen. The stamp was issued to benefit the Red Cross.
Jan Tinbergen
Issued by the Netherlands in 1995.
Thales
Issued by Greece in 2017, one of a set of stamps, “Seven Sages of Ancient Greece”.
Fibonacci
Issued by by Dominica in 1999.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Issued by the Soviet Union on Aug. 15, 1951, part of a series to honor famous Russian scientists.
Rene Descartes
Issued by France in 1996 on the 400th anniversary of his birth.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by the Ivory Coast in 2012.
Bertrand Russel
Issued by Angola in 2001.
Ivan Vidav
Issued by Slovenia in 2018.
Ulugh Beg
Issued by Uzbekistan in 1994 on the 600th anniversary of his birth.
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
Issued by Poland on March 25, 1983.
David Hilbert
Issued by the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2001.
Alan Turing
Issued by St. Vincent and the Grenadines in March 2000.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Issued by Austria in 1989, the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Francisco Gomes Teixeira
Issued by Portugal in 1951 on the centennial of his birth.
Spiru Haret
Issued by Romania in 1976 on the 125th anniversary of his birth.
Sergei Chaplygin
Issued by the Soviet Union in Sept. 1944, on the 75th anniversary of his birth.
Seki Kowa
Issued by Japan in 1992 on the 350th birthday.
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Issued by Croatia on Dec. 13, 1943.
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Issued by Yugoslavia in 1960.
Rudolf Skuhersky
Issued by Czechoslovaki.
Rene Descartes
Issued by Sierra Leone in 2000.
Rene Descartes
Issued by Grenada in 2000.
Pythagoras
Issued by San Marino on April 21, 1982.
Pierre Simon Laplace
Issued by France on June 11, 1955, part of a series Famous Frenchmen. The stamp was issued to benefit the Red Cross.
Pierre Simon Laplace
Issued by Mozambique in 2001.
Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev
Issued by the Soviet Union on May 25, 1946, on the 125th anniversary of his birth.
Otto Yulevich Schmidt
Issued by the Soviet Union in 1966, one of a series of stamps honoring Soviet scientists.
Omar Khayyam
Issued by Albania in 1996.
Omar Khayyam
Issued by the Federated States of Micronesia.
Omar Khayyam
Issued by Albania in 1996.
Octav Onicescu
Issued by Romania in 1992.
Nobert Wiener
Issued by Moldova in 2000.
Niels Henrik Abel
Issued by Norway on April 6, 1929, upon the death centenary.
Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevski
Issued by the Soviet Union on Aug. 15, 1951, part of a series to honor famous Russian scientist.
Nasir al-Din Al-Tusi
Proper name: Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi. Issued by Iran in 1956.
Nasir al-Din Al-Tusi
Issued by Romania (a cover).
Nasir al-Din Al-Tusi
Issued by Iran in 1993.
Nasir al-Din Al-Tusi
Issued by Syria in 2000.
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh
Issued by the Soviet Union on Oct. 2, 1981, on his 70th birthday.
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentev
Issued by the Soviet Union on Oct. 10, 1981.
Mihailo Petrovic
Issued by Yugoslavia in 1993 on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Mihailo Petrovic
Issued by Serbia in 2018.
Mihailo Petrovic
Issued by Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2018.
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Issued by the Netherlands in 1998.
Matteo Ricci
Issued by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 2010.
Matteo Ricci
Issued by Macau in 2006.
Marquis de Condorcet
Issued by France on June 26, 1989, one of a series of stamps issued on the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
Marino Ghetaldi
Issued by Croatia in 2018.
Marian Rejewski
Issued by Poland in 2009.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Issued by Vatican City in 2018.
Luitzen Egbertus Jan (Bertus) Brouwer
Issued by the Netherlands on Sept. 21, 2007.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Issued by Belgium in 2001.
Louis Antoine de Bouginville
Issued by Cambodia in 1992.
Louis Antoine de Bouginville
Issued by French Polynesia.
Liu Hui
Issued by China in 2002.
Jurij Vega
Issued by Yugoslavia in 1954.
Juraj Hronec
Issued by Czechoslovakia on March 10, 1981, part of an eight-stamp series “Famous Persons”.
Jovan Karamata
Issued by Yugoslavia in 2002 on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Joseph-Louis Lagrance
Issued by France on Feb. 15, 1958, part of a series “French scientists”.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Mali in 2011.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Guinea in 2008.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Paraguay.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Mozambique in 2001.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by the Guinea Republic in 1994.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Sierra Leone in 2000.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Comoros in 1988.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Mongolia in 1980.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Mal.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Benin in 1980.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Austria.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by the German Democratic Republic in 1971.
Johan De Witt
Issued by the Netherlands in 2013.
Johan De Witt
Issued by the Netherlands.
Joachim Jungius
Issued by the German Democratic Republic in 1957.
Jerzy Rozycki
Issued by Poland in 2009.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Issued by the Altai Republic in 2011.
Janos Bolyai
Issued by Hungary in 1960, on the 100th anniversary of his death.
Janos Bolyai
Issued by Romania in 1960.
Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky
Issued by the Soviet Union on Dec. 28, 1973, one of a series of four stamps honoring scientists and academicians.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Srpska in 2018.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Mongolia in 2014.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Malawi in 2011.
Isaac Newton
Issued by the Ivory Coast in 2012.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Mali in 2011.
Isaac Newton
Issued by the Marshall Islands in 2010.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Rwanda in 2009.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Gibraltar in 2009.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Malawi in 2008.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Guinea in 1994.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Mongolia in 1977.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Yemen.
Isaac Newton
Issued by St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Nevis in 2000.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Chad in 1999.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Burundi in 2000.
Isaac Newton
Issued by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1993.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Sierra Leone in 2000.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Grenada in 2000.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Viet Nam in 1985.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Poland on Dec. 10, 1959, part of a series to honor famous scientists.
Zo Chongzhi
Issued by Guinea in 2009.
William Rowan Hamilton
Issued by Ireland on Nov. 15, 1943, to commemorate the centenary of the discovery of quaternions.
Simon Stevin
Issued by Belgium on May 15, 1942, to benefit the battle against tuberculosis, part of a series “Famous Flanders scientists of the 16th century”.
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Issued by Yugoslavia in 1987.
Roger Penrose
Issued by Guinea in 2010.
Rene Descartes
Issued by Mozambique in 2009.
Leonhard Euler
Issued by Guinea-Bissau in 2009.
Leonhard Euler
Issued by the German Democratic Republic on July 10, 1950, on the 250th anniversary of the Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin Academy of Science).
Leonhard Euler
Issued by the German Democratic Republic on June 7, 1957, part of a series “Famous Scientists”.
Leonhard Euler
Issued by Switzerland on Nov. 30, 1957, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Euler’s birth.
Kurt Gödel
Issued by Austria in 2006 on the centennial of his birth.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Mexico in 1971.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by Mali in 2010.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by the Czech Republic in 2009.
Johannes Kepler
Issued by the Yemen Arab Republic in 1969.
Johann Andreas Segner
Issued by Hungary in 2004.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Great Britain in 2010.
Isaac Newton
Issued by Djibouti in 2006.
Isaac Newton
Issued by the Republic of the Congo in 2000.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Issued by West Berlin, Germany on Aug. 27, 1971, on the 150th birth anniversary.
Gheorghe Titeica
Issued by Romania on Apr. 11, 1961, part of a series to honor Romanian scientists.
Francesco Severi
Issued by Italy on April 23, 1979, on the 100th birth anniversary.
Emanuel Lasker
Issued by Equatorial Guinea.
Edward Witten
Issued by Guinea in 2010.
Eduard Cech
Issued by the Czech Republic on Aug. 26, 1993, part of a two-stamp series “Personalities”.
Dodecagon
Hauer was a composer of the twelve-tone technique (dodecaphony). Issued by Austria in 1983.
Cristopher Clavius
Issued by Vatican City in 2012.
Christiaan Huygens
Issued by São Tomé and Príncipe in 2008.
Christiaan Huygens
Issued by Mali in 2006.
Charles Babbage
Issued by Great Britain in 2010.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Issued by Germany on Feb. 23, 1955, to commemorate the centenary of death.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Issued by Guinea in 2010.
Blaise Pascal
Issued by São Tomé and Príncipe in 2008.
Bertrand Russel
Issued by India on Oct. 16, 1972, on his birth centennial.