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April 3-4, 2009Bowling Green State University
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April 3-4, 2009Bowling Green State University
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V. Frederick Rickey
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V. Frederick Rickey, a logician turned historian, became Professor of
Mathematics at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY in
the summer of 1998. After earning three degrees from the University of
Notre Dame (Ph.D. 1968) he went to Bowling Green State University where
he rose through the professorial ranks to the rank of Distinguished
Teaching Professor Emeritus. He has broad interests in the history of
mathematics and is especially interested in the development of the
calculus.
Currently he is working on a history of the mathematics department at West Point, a department that traces its history to 1801. He loves teaching and enjoys giving lectures to mathematicians about the history of their field. He received the first award from the Ohio Section for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, and was in the first group to receive a MAA National Awards for teaching. |
Jared Mansfield (1759-1830) was educated at Yale, taught school in New Haven and Philadelphia, and wrote Essays, Mathematical and Physical (1801). These came to the attention of President Thomas Jefferson who appointed him the first faculty member at the military academy at West Point. He stayed but 18 months till Jefferson appointed him Surveyor General of the United States. Thus began his career in Ohio. He was responsible for setting up the survey in Ohio and the Northwest Territory. In 1812 he returned East and became Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West Point. We will reveal Mansfield's colorful personality and his contributions to Ohio.
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