Nineteenth Century Normal Mathematics
Resources for History of Mathematics at State Normal School, Geneseo, NY
Gathered by Jeff Johannes
State Normal School, 1875
Reuben Addison Waterbury, first mathematics professor and vice principal
1888 Circular of the State Normal and Training
School (including details of the course curriculum).
1876 textbook used by Waterbury in the first course, Arithmetic:
Horatio Robinson's .
Regents exams for New York State:
an .
Contemporary curriculum at Alfred University, where
Waterbury earned his A. B. and M. A. (and which awarded his honourary
Ph.D.).
Newspaper letter from Waterbury concerning an
unknown scandal that ended his time in Geneseo in 1895.
William J. Milne, first principal
Textbooks:
An elementary arithmetic on the inductive plan including oral and written
exercises (1882)
Intermediate arithmetic (1900)
Milne's New York state arithmetic (1914)
Other resources:
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ºÚÁÏÍø, from Normal School to Public Ivy, 1871-2007, Wayne Mahmoud et
al, The Donning Company, Virginia Beach, 2008.
Centennial History of the State University College of Arts and Science at
Geneseo, New York . . . the stone strength of the past. . . . , Rosalind R.
Fisher, Wm. J. Keller, Inc, 1971.
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