Documents about the USMA Department of Mathematical Sciences

This file is intended to be a master list of all documents which have been collected on these pages. They are arranged chronologically and each is intended to be linked back and forth to at least one other document. 

• Letter from Dearborn to Baron, April 11, 1801, asking if he wants to teach mathematics at West Point. 
• Letter from Dearborn to Baron, May 11, 1801, informing him he will be appointed  teacher of mathematics at West Point. 
• Letter from Baron to Dearborn, May 19, 1801, declining a position at West Point because of the salary.
• Letter from Baron to Dearborn, June 1, 1801, accepting a position at West Point.
• Letter from Dearborn to Baron, June 6, 1801, sending him a commission of "Teacher of the Arts and Sciences to the Artillerists and Engineers." 
• Statement of the examination of the Cadets of Engineers and Artillery in arithmetic, algebra and geometry, 1806.
• Letter from Dearborn to Hassler, March 2, 1807, acknowledging acceptance of job at West Point. 
• Letter from Calhoun to Thayer, October 7, 1820, about appointing Adrain as mathematics professor at USMA. 
• Letter from VanDeventer to Thayer, November 2, 1820, about appointing Adrain or Douglass as mathematics professor at USMA. 
• Letter from Norton to Thayer, August 13, 1821 about Farrar's translation of Lacroix's algebra and the USMA curriculum.
• Letter from Stanton to Thayer, January 26, 1822
• Letter from Macomb to Thayer,
• Letter from Davies to Thayer of July 26, 1825 requesting a letter of recommendation for Horace Webster at Geneva College. 
• Letter from Alexander Macomb to Thayer, September 27, 1825,  about Dennis H. Mahan replacing Horace Webster after his resignation. 
• Quotations from the Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy made to Congress and the Secretary of War, for the year 1825.
• Letter from Monroe to Thayer of June 6, 1827 looking for a mathematics professor at the University of Virginia. 
• Letter from Courtenay to Thayer, June 17, 1827 about being recommended to teach at the University of Virginia.
• Letter from Davies to Thayer of June 22, 1827 about a mathematics professor for UVA.
• Letter from Thayer to Monroe of June 23, 1827 suggesting Courtenay for UVA. 
• Letter from Alfred Mordecai to Thayer, September 23, 1828,  about the death of Samuel S. Smith and his replacement, Robert E. Temple.
• Letter from Thayer to Monroe of October 10, 1828. This letter is very valuable because it describes the Thayer Method in his own words.
• Detailed Programma of the Course of Instruction for the Cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Prepared by the Academic Board under an order of the Chief Engineer, dated 3rd March 1840 [U410 .C9 U621]. Sections on Descriptive Geometry, and Shades Shadows and Perspective.
• Obituary of Charles Davies (1798-1876) reprinted from the Fishkill Standard.
• Letter from Alice R. Allan to Ernest J. Wesson, January 16, 1961, about Edward Mansfield’s book about his father.

Excerpts from the Annual Report of the Superintendent:   1954.

Excerpts from the Board of Visitors Report: 1819, 1821, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1860.

Papers:

• Arney, David C., "Army beats Harvard in football and Mathematics," Math Horizons, September 1994, pp. 14-17.

Compiled by V. Frederick Rickey, beginning November 2000.
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