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... natural part of the Bicentennial of the Academy over the coming years , will provide appropriate opportunities to focus on the history and heritage of mathematics at West Point . There will be obvious interest in how mathematics ...
... natural part of the Bicentennial of the Academy over the coming years , will provide appropriate opportunities to focus on the history and heritage of mathematics at West Point . There will be obvious interest in how mathematics ...
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... natural philosophy , politics , engineering , and other scholarly subjects [ Boynton 1863 ; Mol- loy 1975 ] . With this shipment , the collection of primary sources in the history of mathematics at West Point was auspiciously ...
... natural philosophy , politics , engineering , and other scholarly subjects [ Boynton 1863 ; Mol- loy 1975 ] . With this shipment , the collection of primary sources in the history of mathematics at West Point was auspiciously ...
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... natural and experimental philosophy ; in mathematics ; and in the art of engineering , each with concomitant army ranks and with appropriate assistants . Provisions were made for teachers of French and drawing . Age and academic ...
... natural and experimental philosophy ; in mathematics ; and in the art of engineering , each with concomitant army ranks and with appropriate assistants . Provisions were made for teachers of French and drawing . Age and academic ...
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... natural philosophy , and Crozet in engineering . It was not until 1831 , two years be- fore the end of his tenure as Superintendent , that he finally had his chosen men , all USMA graduates , in these three leading positions . This ...
... natural philosophy , and Crozet in engineering . It was not until 1831 , two years be- fore the end of his tenure as Superintendent , that he finally had his chosen men , all USMA graduates , in these three leading positions . This ...
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... natural philosophy ; and there would be an observatory , 27 feet in diameter , in the middle of the front of the building . The whole structure measured 160 feet by 78 feet , and when it was finally completed in 1841 , it cost over $ 50 ...
... natural philosophy ; and there would be an observatory , 27 feet in diameter , in the middle of the front of the building . The whole structure measured 160 feet by 78 feet , and when it was finally completed in 1841 , it cost over $ 50 ...
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Page 134 - DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY, an Elementary Treatise on; with a Theory of Shadows and of Perspective, extracted from the French of G. MONGE. To which is added, a description of the Principles and Practice of Isometrical Projection. By JF HEATHER, MA -With 14 Plates.
Page 41 - Mathematical Tracts on the Lunar and Planetary Theories. The Figure of the Earth, Precession and Nutation, the Calculus of Variations, and the Undulatory Theory of Optics.
Page 146 - An INTRODUCTION to the THEORY and PRACTICE of PLANE and SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY, and the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere, including the Theory of Navigation ; comprehending a variety of Rules, Formulae, &c.
Page 79 - A Treatise on the Method of Government Surveying as prescribed by the US Congress and Commissioner of the General Land Office, with complete Mathematical, Astronomical and Practical Instructions for the use of the United States Surveyors in the field.
Page 83 - An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics. Translated from the French of M. Boucharlat. With Additions and emendations, designed to adapt it to the use of the Cadets of the US Military Academy.
Page 50 - A New Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary; Comprising an Explanation of the Terms and Principles of Pure and Mixed Mathematics, and such Branches of Natural Philosophy as are Susceptible of Mathematical Investigation. With Historical Sketches of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Several Departments of these Sciences, and an Account of the Discoveries and Writings of the Most Celebrated Authors, Both Ancient and Modern.
Page 85 - AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE Geometrical and Algebraical Investigation OF MAXIMA AND MINIMA; Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures, delivered conformably to the Will of Lady Sadler.
Page 228 - DOCTRINE of LIMITS, with its Applications: namely, Conic Sections ; the first Three Sections of Newton ; and the Differential Calculus.
Page 116 - Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and optics ; with the use of the globes ; the art of dialling, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons, and eclipses; with plates.
Page 146 - The Elements of Plane Geometry -, containing the First Six Books of Euclid, from the Text of Dr. Simson: with Notes, Critical and Explanatory. To which are added. Book VII. including several important Propositions which are not in Euclid...