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... École polytechnique of Paris to the American culture . In mathematics , Professor Charles Davies ( USMA 1815 ) expressed what was to become the new American philosophy , " to unite ... the scientific discussions of the French , with the ...
... École polytechnique of Paris to the American culture . In mathematics , Professor Charles Davies ( USMA 1815 ) expressed what was to become the new American philosophy , " to unite ... the scientific discussions of the French , with the ...
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... École polytechnique had been closed because it was deemed a breeding ground for " liberalism and radicalism " [ Artz 1966 , p . 240 ; Swift 1890 , p . 139 ] . Called " the most significant advance in the whole history of higher ...
... École polytechnique had been closed because it was deemed a breeding ground for " liberalism and radicalism " [ Artz 1966 , p . 240 ; Swift 1890 , p . 139 ] . Called " the most significant advance in the whole history of higher ...
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... École polytechnique , came into focus : " the Thayer of 1817 had little interest in tactics , and placed military engineering in a position of lesser importance to architecture and civil engineering " [ Molloy 1975 , p . 388-389 ...
... École polytechnique , came into focus : " the Thayer of 1817 had little interest in tactics , and placed military engineering in a position of lesser importance to architecture and civil engineering " [ Molloy 1975 , p . 388-389 ...
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... École polytechnique as a pattern " [ Morrison 1986 , p . 23 ] . This system was governed by Thayer's " savants " ( the professors ) and supported by a generous number of assistants ( the répétiteurs ) who conducted the many small ...
... École polytechnique as a pattern " [ Morrison 1986 , p . 23 ] . This system was governed by Thayer's " savants " ( the professors ) and supported by a generous number of assistants ( the répétiteurs ) who conducted the many small ...
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... École polytechnique . In the 1820s and 1830s , Sylvanus Thayer and his disciples attempted to fulfill Williams ' dream , and in so doing made math- ematics and mechanics the cornerstone of the West Point technological education . At the ...
... École polytechnique . In the 1820s and 1830s , Sylvanus Thayer and his disciples attempted to fulfill Williams ' dream , and in so doing made math- ematics and mechanics the cornerstone of the West Point technological education . At the ...
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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...