Union College Math Department History - 1826 - 1877
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Union College Math Department (History): The Jackson Years: 1826 - 1877 During the period from 1826 to 1877, the department contained, and for much of the time consisted of, Isaac Jackson. An 1826 graduate of Union, Jackson was an active publisher of textbooks himself - books on mechanics, optics, conic sections and trigonometry as well as notes on acoustics and electricity (his prescience evident there), magnetism and mineralogy bore his name. Although Jackson seems not to have sought to make any original contributions to mathematics, he maintained a lifelong friendship with the noted physicist Joseph Henry, and his texts and notes are evidence of his energy and love of mathematics and the teaching of it. Jackson was, as were many of the early faculty across the College, a man of many parts, as the article about him in this
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