Are you aware of any? (current ones? old ones?)
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this sounds like what your looking for:
http://www.princeton.edu/~jbourjai/money1.htm
Dear Gil,
The only one I’m aware of is the old zehn Deutsche mark bill which features Gauss:
http://www.cunymath.cuny.edu/images/sidebar/gauss_10_DM.jpg
I guess there’s probably more…
Sincerely,
Tobias
I don’t know of banknotes, but I know of coins. For example, before the Euro was introduced in Portugal in 2002, the old 100 escudos coin featured Pedro Nunes (1502-1578) who was a Portuguese mathematician and cosmographer.
Isn’t Euler on the Swiss?
Apologies to Mike. I should have read his comment first. Nice link.
The 10 Turkish Lira banknotes (http://www.codingday.com/cahit.jpg) has an equation of the mathematician Cahit Arf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahit_Arf
Niels Henrik Abel on the old Norwegian 500 kroner banknote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NOK_500_V_recto.jpg
Thanks all. It was a pleasant surprise to see Arf on a 10 Turkish Lira banknote. (See next post. Clicking on the 10 Lira picture there will take you to a recent breakthrough regarding Arf invariants.)
Sadly, the latest issue of the Swiss ten franc note has replaced Euler with architect Le Corbusier.
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Dear Cortney and Kristen
Thanks you! Twelve years old kids are most welcome on this blog.