William Chauvenet was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy ...
William Chauvenet was born on a farm near Milford, Pennsylvania in 1820 and was raised in Philadelphia. Early in life he exhibited a knack for mathematics.
William Chauvenet is enshrined in the pages of American Naval History. As a leader, a teacher, a scholar, and above all as a man, he will remain forever an ...
William Chauvenet was an American professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval ...
William Chauvenet
Professor of mathematics
William Chauvenet was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St.... Wikipedia
Born: May 24, 1820, United States
Died: December 13, 1870 (age 50 years), Saint Paul, MN
Books
A manual of spherical and practical astronomy
1863
Spherical and Practical Astronomy
Elementary Geometry
Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy; Volume 2
A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General Problems of Spherical Astronomy, the Special Applications to Nautical Astronomy, and the Theory and Use of Fixed and Portable Astronomical Instruments, with an Appendix on the Method of Least Squares
1863
Binomial Theorem and Logarithms: For the Use of the Midshipmen At the Naval School, Philadelphia
1843
William Chauvenet is chiefly known to the present generation as a mathematician and theoretical astronomer and as an author of mathematical text books of ...
A single decade has just closed since the organization of our. Academy, yet sixteen of the original fifty members have passed from us.
William Chauvenet became chairman of the mathematics department at Washington University in St. Louis. Three years later, he was appointed chancellor.
William Chauvenet, for whom our club is named, was born on the 24th of May 1820 at Milford, Penn. He was the only child of William Marc Chauvenet, a native of ...
CHAUVENET, William, mathematician, born in Milford, Pennsylvania, 24 May, 1820; died in St. Paul, Minn., 13 December, 1870. After preliminary studies in ...
Mathematician William Chauvenet was a highly regarded scientist who made contributions in the areas of trigonometry and geometry and in the application of ...