Banknotes with Pictures of Mathematicians

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Gil Kalai

Are you aware of any? (current ones? old ones?)

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12 Responses to Banknotes with Pictures of Mathematicians

  1. mike says:
    June 18, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    this sounds like what your looking for:
    http://www.princeton.edu/~jbourjai/money1.htm

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  2. tobiasosborne says:
    June 18, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    Dear Gil,

    The only one I’m aware of is the old zehn Deutsche mark bill which features Gauss:

    I guess there’s probably more…

    Sincerely,
    Tobias

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  3. Rod Carvalho says:
    June 18, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    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.

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  4. shmuel says:
    June 18, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    Isn’t Euler on the Swiss?

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  5. shmuel says:
    June 18, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Apologies to Mike. I should have read his comment first. Nice link.

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  6. Can says:
    June 18, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    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

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  7. Taral says:
    June 18, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    Niels Henrik Abel on the old Norwegian 500 kroner banknote.

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  8. Gil Kalai says:
    June 19, 2009 at 8:58 am

    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.)

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  9. Vania says:
    June 19, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    Sadly, the latest issue of the Swiss ten franc note has replaced Euler with architect Le Corbusier.

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  10. cortney timmons says:
    September 30, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    weelll i rilly love to read about stuff like this it is very interesting even know i am onley 12 !!!!!

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  11. kristen griffin says:
    September 30, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    hi well just like courtney i really love to read i guess this stuff is very interesting i am 12 2 me and courtney are like best friends she is one of my best friends i have 4

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  12. Gil Kalai says:
    October 4, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    Dear Cortney and Kristen
    Thanks you! Twelve years old kids are most welcome on this blog.

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