Showing posts with label Mathematicians. Show all posts
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Scientists And Mathematicians On Banknotes

Here is an interesting collection of global banknotes.

They aren't printed on with political leaders but with famous scientists and mathematicians.


Below are some of the samples...


You can see the rest of the collection on the website of Physicist Jacob Lewis Bourjaily.

Paul Kedrosky has this observation, ``Interestingly, despite the U.S. arguably being the foremost country in the world in advancing modern science, no 20th century U.S. scientist is represented on these notes. With the exceptions of Franklin and Jefferson, who were polymaths and politicians too, the U.S. is entirely absent from this collection of scientists on banknotes. There is no Crick, Watson, Fleming, Goddard, Salk, Turing, etc."