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. |