Stamping through Mathematics

lectures entitled "Stamping through Mathematics" to school and colleg e groups and to mathematical clubs and societies, and has written a re gular "Stamp Corner" for the Mathematical Intelligencer. The book con tains almost four hundred postage stamps relating to mathematics, rang ing from the earliest forms of counting to the modern computer age. Fe atured are many of the mathematicians who contributed to this story—i nfluential figures, such as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Newton, and Einste in—and some of the areas whose study aided this development—such as navigation, astronomy, and art. The stamps appear enlarged and in ful l color with full historical commentary, and are listed at the end of the book. Robin Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Ope n University in England and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford Universi ty. He is very involved with the popularization of mathematics and has written and edited books on a variety of topics, from graph theory an d combinatorics via the Gilbert and Sullivan operas to the history of mathematics.