Excerpts Related to Mathematics from Annual Reports of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy

1821:

Age of admittance raised to 16, and entrance requirements in mathematics to include "a more extended knowledge of Arithmetick."

Mathematics Curriculum

Class Section Subject of Study and Text
     
1st 1st Applications of Descriptive Geometry to Stone Cutting and Perspective Architecture. [Taught in the Engineering Department]
     
3rd 1st Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Hutton's Conic Sections, Geodesic Operations by Hutton, Spherical Projections, Lecroix's Fluxions.
  2nd Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Hutton's Conic Sections, Geodesic Operations, Gregory's Plane and Spherical Analytical Trigonometry, Spherical Projections.
  3rd Mensuration, Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Hutton's Conic Sections, Gregory's Plane and Spherical Analytical Trigonometry, Spherical Projections.
  4th Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Hutton's Conic Sections, Simpson's Spherical Trigonometry and Spherical Projections, Gregory's Analytical Plane Trigonometry.
     
4th 1st Hutton and Simpson's Algebra, Construction of Logarithms, Hutton's Geometry, Hutton and Simpson's Application of Algebra to Geometry, Hutton's Plane Trigonometry and Mensuration, Simpson's Geometrical Constructions, Gregory's Plane and Spherical Analytical Trigonomery.
  2nd Hutton and Simpson's Algebra, Construction of Logarithms, Hutton's Geometry, Hutton and Simpson's Application of Algebra to Geometry, Hutton's Plane Trigonometry, Simpson's Geometrical Constructions, Mensuration of Superfices [Surfaces?] and Solids, Gregory's Plane and Spherical Analytical Trigonometry.
  3rd Hutton's Algebra and Logarithms, Hutton's Geometry and Applications of Geometry to Algebra, Plane Trigonometry, Mensuration of Superfices and Solids.
  4th The same as for the 3rd Section, except the Mensuration of Solids.