Excerpts Related to Mathematics from Annual Reports of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy
1824:
Mathematics Curriculum
Class | Section | Name of Instructors | Subject of Study and Text |
1st | 1st & 2nd | Prof. Douglas, Ast. Prof Courtenay | Perspective Shades and Shadows |
3rd | 1st | Prof. Davi[e]s | Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Perspective Shades and Shadows, Conic Sections, Biot's Analytical Geometry, Lecroix's Fluxions. |
2nd | Lient. Webster | Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Perspective Shades and Shadows, Conic Sections, Biot's Analytical Geometry, Hutton's Fluxions. | |
3rd | Lient. Green | Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Perspective Shades and Shadows, Conic Sections, Biot's Analytical Geometry. | |
4th | 1st | Cadet Mahan | Legendre's Geometry, Lecroix's Analytical Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Descriptive Geometry. |
2nd | Cadet Parrott | Legendre's Geometry, Lecroix's Analytical Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. | |
3rd | Cadet Bache | Legendre's Geometry, Lecroix's Analytical Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. | |
4th | Cadet McMartin | Legendre's Geometry, Lecroix's Algebra. | |
5th | Cadet McGehee | Legendre's Geometry, Lecroix's Algebra. |