14 October 1890 - 28 March 1969

    "In high school, plane geometry was an intellectual adventure, one that entranced me. After a few months, my teachers conducted an unusual experiment. The principal and my mathematics teacher called me to the office and told me that they were going to take away my textbook. Thereafter, I was to work out the geometry problems without the benefit of the book. They said that for the remaining months, unless the experiment was terminated by them, I would automatically receive an A-plus grade.
        "Strangely enough, I got along fairly well." [Eisenhower 1969, p. 7]

Morris Bishop, in his biography of Pascal, makes an even stronger claim: He says Eisenhower was told to "construct his own geometry."  [Story thanks to Jerry Lenz. I need to find the footnote that has this story, which is in my calendar.]
 
 The statue of Eisenhower at West Point was made by Robert Dean, USMA 1953. 

Cullum #5373

Publications:

In review: pictures I've kept; a concise pictorial autobiography, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969. SPECIAL COLL-BSMT-B30       E836 .A33
    This has no index. I did not see any comments about his mathematical experiences at USMA.
 

Bishop, Morris, Pascal: The Life of a Genius, NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. [Rickey owns copy]

Arney, Chris, West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists, 2002.