Other Individuals Connected To Mathematics at USMA
This list contains the names of individuals who are important in the development
of mathematics at USMA. This list is arranged alphabetically by individual.
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Adrain, Robert, famous early American
mathematician and potential USMA faculty.
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Arkin, Joseph, Senior
Lecturer 1986-1994.
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Bartlett,
William H. Chambers, Prof. of Exp. and Nat. Phil., USMA.
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Bixby, William H. USMA 1873. Wrote pamphlet on
solving equations.
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Buckingham,
Catharinus Putnam, writer on mathematics.
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Calhoun, John C, Secretary of War,
1817-1825.
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Crozet, Claudius, taught descriptive
geometry.
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Eisenhower, Dwight David, how he studied
geometry without a book.
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Grant, Ulysses S, reflects on his USMA studies.
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Lee, Thomas Jefferson, USMA 1830, author.
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McRee, William, USMA 1805. Traveled with Thayer to
Europe.
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Michie,
Peter Smith, Prof. of Exp. and Nat. Phil., USMA.
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O'Connor, John Michael,
son-in-law of Jared Mansfield.
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Parrott, Robert Parker, inventor of Parrott
gun.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, poet and sometime cryptographer.
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Stevens,
Isaac Ingalis, concerned about curriculum.
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Sully, Alfred,
description of 1838 library fire.
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Sully, Thomas,
painter.
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Weir, Robert W., painter.
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Wendell, Abraham, USMA 1817, kept an algebra
notebook.
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Williams, Jonathan, first
Superintendent.