Editing Claudius Crozet (section)

==Immigration to United States and West Point ==
In the fall of 1816, Crozet and his bride immigrated to the [[United States]].<ref>Couper, William  (1936), ''Claudius Crozet: Soldier-Scholar-Educator-Engineer (1789-1864)''; Charlottesville: Historical Publishing Co. as cited in Hunter (1961)</ref> Almost immediately after arriving, Crozet began work as a professor of engineering at the [[U.S. Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]].<ref>Angulo, A. J. (2012). ''The  polytechnic comes to America: How French approaches to science instruction influenced mid-nineteenth century American higher education.'' History of Science, 50(168), 315.</ref>

While at West Point, Crozet is credited by some as being the first to use the chalkboard as an instructional tool. He also used the "Elementary Course of Civil Engineering", translated from the course of M. J. Sganzin at the [[École Polytechnique]], designed several of the buildings on the campus, and published ''A Treatise on Descriptive Geometry''. [[Thomas Jefferson]] referred to Claudius Crozet as "by far the best mathematician in the United States."<ref name="gazette">{{cite web |last=Carroll |first=Clover |title=Claudius Crozet's Richmond Sojourn |url=http://www.crozetgazette.com/2011/12/08/claudius-crozets-richmond-sojourn/ |accessdate=8 March 2018 |work=Crozet Gazette |date=8 December 2011 }}</ref>