-Albertus Magnus also wrote an important commentary (in Latin) on Euclid's Elements. I am fortunate to posses P.M.J.E.Tummers' careful edition and study of it. Note that Albertus' year of birth is sometimes given as 1193, which is unlikely historically. On a confessional box in the St. Paul's church in Antwerp there is a 17th century wooden sculpture of Albertus Magnus by Artus Quellinus from Antwerp.
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the universal Henri Poincaré
born in Nancy in 1854
- A selection of his filosofical essays[in Dutch, for a general audience]:
"Een nacht vol opwinding"
Epsilon Uitgaven, Utrecht (1998)
and Norbert Wiener
of the filter, integral, process, ...
- His Autobiography [two volumes]:"Ex-Prodigy"
"I am a Mathematician"
Paperback, MIT Press (1970,1972)
Saint Albertus Magnus
(about 1205 - 1280),
most important theologian of his time, who together with his pupil Thomas Aquinas "discussed infinity beyond Greek thought", to quote my "Japanese" Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics.
To the right: a stamp honoring the famous natural historian Georges (Comte de) Buffon,
the first to use analysis in probability, known for his Needle Problem (to estimate pi),
the first Monte Carlo Simulation ever.
Four stamps on Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle"
