Tuesday, June 23, 2015

URU - 2015 - #019 - BRIEF DESCRIPTION - CENTENARY OF JOSÉ LUIS MASSERA BIRTHDAY


Uruguay - 2015 - Centenary of Engineer José Luis Massera Birthday PreviousNext )




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SERIES --- 1,00 EUR
SERIES with LABEL --- 3,00 EUR
 SERIES [2x2] with LABEL --- 5,00 EUR
BLOCK --- 8,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent --- 2,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: June 8th, 2015
Printed: 15.000 copies

Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [39 mm. x 27 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration: 8 stamps [3 x 3] and one Label at position 2,2
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [141 mm. x 211 mm.]

FDC Type: Official Cover from Post Office
FDC not sent Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]

Catalogue information:

Michel: No Data Available
Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available

Topics:

Brief Description:

A brief description of the Most Popular Topics of this Release are: Clearly Mathematics or Mathematicians as the Main Topic, and of course the wider ones that includes them that are Sciences, and Scientits, or even a wider Personalities, then going to more specific Topics, one could spot Uruguayan Mathematicians and Uruguayan Scientits, and inside this Topic, the Mathematician being honoured in this Issue that is Engineer José Luis Massera, and Italian born Uruguayan Mathematician who researched the Stability of Differential Equations, devloping New Notions of Stability, and Publishing Several Foundational Papers and  influential Textbooks on that Topic. His results on Periodic Differential Equations have been heavily cited and are referred to as Massera's theorem, and his work on the Converse to Lyapunov's Criterion is also influential, and contain the well known Massera's lemma. His textbook (Massera & Schäffer 1966) is also heavily cited.

Then, there are some Topics related with the personality of Engineer José Luis Massera, first, undoubtely the Engineering as it was his Proffesional career, and also Politics, in particular Left-Wing Politics, as he was part of the Communist Party, in which was elected Deputy in 1962 and reelected in 1966. After that he participated in the foundation of the Frente Amplio, Left-Wing Party that since 2005 was elected for National Goverment and succesively relected until present time.

Both Politics and Sciences were present during all his life. After being arrested on October of 1975 and tortured by the Uruguayan Militar Dictatorship, a broad and vigorous international campaign demanded his liberation constantly, leading to his freedom on March of 1984.  During the 80s and 90s participated actively in discussions with European and Latin American authors on the vitality of communism and the need to renew the Marxist doctrine and politics, besides implementing in Uruguay Development Program of Basic Sciences to stimulate production scientific, and participated in the founding work of the Sciences Faculty of the University of the Republic. In the second half of the 90s he focused completely on Politics task, organizing seminars on Marx at the Sorbonne, University of Paris X and other academic centers.

 During his career he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the universities; La Sapienza (Rome), Humboldt (Berlin), Nice, of Puebla, Quito, Technic of Budapest, San Andres (Bolivia), Havana, UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro) and the University of the Republic (Uruguay).

Then, looking at the desing of the Issue, the focus of it is a Portrait Picture of Engineer José Luis Massera, by the Photographer Eduardo Collings, an Uruguayan Photographer specialized in Scientific Photography, accompanied by a Graphical Representation of a Function in X and Y Axis.

Finally, regarding the desing too, this time about the Block desing, the same Graphical Representation of a Function in X and Y Axis is shown on Background and a short Biography of Engineer José Luis Massera is placed below the stamps, written by Ernesto Mordecki, a Professor at the Centro de Matemática of the University of the Republic, Uruguay, that his research interests include Optimal stopping of stochastic processes and applications to finance, with witch received his Ph.D in Statistics of Stochastic Processes in 1994 from the Steklov Mathematical Institute, under the supervision of Albert Shiryaev.


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Friday, June 19, 2015

URU - 2015 - #018 - BRIEF DESCRIPTION - COP12, RAMSAR CONVENTION FOR WETLANDS, PUNTA DEL ESTE 2015


Uruguay - 2015 - COP12: Ramsar International Convention for Wetlands, Punta del Este 2015 PreviousNext )




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SERIES --- 10,00 EUR
STAMP 1 (Scarlet-headed Blackbird, Amblyramphus Holosericeus) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 2 (Black Skimmer, Rynchops Niger Intercedens) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 3 (Chilean Flamingo, Phoenicopterus Chilensis) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 4 (Snowy Egret, Egretta Thula) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 5 (Plumbeous Ibis, Theristicus Caerulescens) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 6 (Capybara, Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 7 (Saffron-Cowled Blackbird, Xanthopsar Flavus) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 8 (Brazilian Green Racer Snake, Philodryas Aestivus) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 9 (Neohelice Crab, Neohelice Granulatus) --- 3,00 EUR
STAMP 10 (Montevideo Red-Belly Toad, Melanophryniscus Montevidensis) --- 3,00 EUR
BLOCK --- 11,00 EUR
BLOCK with First Day Cancellation --- 12,00 EUR
BLOCK with Folder --- 15,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of the whole Series (10 Covers)  --- 20,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 1 (Scarlet-headed Blackbird, Amblyramphus Holosericeus) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 2 (Black Skimmer, Rynchops Niger Intercedens) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 3 (Chilean Flamingo, Phoenicopterus Chilensis) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 4 (Snowy Egret, Egretta Thula) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 5 (Plumbeous Ibis, Theristicus Caerulescens) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 6 (Capybara, Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 7 (Saffron-Cowled Blackbird, Xanthopsar Flavus) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 8 (Brazilian Green Racer Snake, Philodryas Aestivus) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 9 (Neohelice Crab, Neohelice Granulatus) --- 4,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent of STAMP 10 (Montevideo Red-Belly Toad, Melanophryniscus Montevidensis) --- 4,00 EUR
FDC Sent on First Day of the whole Series (5 Covers) --- 35,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: June 6th, 2015
Printed: 10.000 copies

Stamp Shape and Size: Both Rectangular [39 mm. x 27 mm.] extending it desing to perforations.
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration: 1 series, 10 stamps [5 x 2]
[ [ Stamp 1, Empty Space, Stamp 2, Empty Space ]
[ Empty Space, Stamp 3, Empty Space, Stamp 4 ]
[ Stamp 5, Empty Space, Stamp 6, Empty Space ]
[ Empty Space, Stamp 7, Empty Space, Stamp 8 ]
[ Stamp 9, Empty Space, Stamp 10, Empty Space ] ]
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [192 mm. x 191 mm.]

Folder Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [211 mm. x 200 mm.]

FDC Type: Official Cover from Post Office
FDC not sent Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]
FDC sent on issue day Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]


Catalogue information:

Michel: No Data Available
Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available

Topics:

Brief Description:

A brief description of the Most Popular Topics of this Release are: Ecology, in particular the one that takes care of Wetlands, and also International Conventions, as this Series was released to promote the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP12) that was held at the Conrad Resort, in Punta del Este, a city and resort on the Atlantic Coast in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay, from 1 to 9 June 2015.

Ramsar is the oldest of the modern global intergovernmental environmental agreements. The treaty was negotiated through the 1960s by countries and non-governmental organizations concerned about the increasing loss and degradation of wetland habitat for migratory waterbirds. It was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971 and came into force in 1975.

Then, looking at the desing of the Issue, many topics arises, most of them could be put inside the great category of Animals or Fauna, with a slight focus on Birds, as six of the Species selected for the Stamps in this Release, are in this particular Family of Animals, however the Spectre inside this family is wide going from two different small Blackbirds as Scarlet-headed Blackbird, Amblyramphus Holosericeus and Saffron-Cowled Blackbird, Xanthopsar Flavus, to bigger birds like: Black Skimmer, Rynchops Niger Intercedens; Chilean Flamingo, Phoenicopterus Chilensis; Snowy Egret, Egretta Thula; and Plumbeous Ibis, Theristicus Caerulescens. Then, Mammals, and in particular Roedents are represented by the Biggest Roedent of the World, the Capybara, Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris. Also Crustaceans, in partcular Crabs are present too with the inclusion of Neohelice Crab, Neohelice Granulatus. And finally, Reptiles mades it appeareance through Snakes and Toads Individuals, as are the Brazilian Green Racer Snake, Philodryas Aestivus and Montevideo Red-Belly Toad, Melanophryniscus Montevidensis respectively.

All these Animals are beautifully presented in a typical view of a Wetland, including all it characteristic Flora, like Reeds, Water Lilies, and other Plants and Trees that are common in this kind of Geography.

Finally, just a few words regarding the Logotypes that appears in this Release. In all items, the Block, the First Day Cancellation and the Folder, the Logo of the Ramsar Convention in Punta del Este is included, showing in a stylized form: The Sun, The Water, and also a Capybara, a large Bird probably a Snowy Egret, and Reeds. All these items accompanied by the Motto of the Convention that is "Humedales para nuestro futuro", that means "Wetlands for our future". Then, also the Logotypes of "Uruguay Natural", a Brand that promotes Uruguay as Environment Friendly Country, and the one of MVOTMA, that stands for "Ministerio de Vivienda, Ordenamiento Territorial, y Medio Ambiente", that is the Uruguayan Ministry that has Ecology as one of its responsabilities, appears both in the Block and in the Folder of the Release.


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