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.