A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy

@inproceedings{Albree1999ASF,
  title={A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy},
  author={Joe Albree and David C. Arney and V. Frederick Rickey},
  year={1999}
}
Introduction Catalog of the West Point collection Catalog of 1803 Inventory of books, maps and charts, belonging to the Military Academy at West Point Photographs Portraits in the collection Frontispieces in the collection. 
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