Background
Driver, Rodney David was born on July 1, 1932 in London. Came to the United States, 1945. Son of William T. and Marjorie E. (Carter) Driver.
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This textbook is designed for the intermediate-level course on ordinary differential equations offered at many universities and colleges. It treats, as standard topics of such a course: existence and uniqueness theory, linear s- terns, stability theory, and introductory phase-plane analysis of autonomous second order systems. The unique feature of the book is its further inc- sion of a substantial introduction to delay differential eq- tions. Such equations are motivated by problems in control theory, physics, biology, ecology, economics, inventory c- trol, and the theory of nuclear reactors. The surge of interest in delay differential equations during the past two or three decades is evidenced by th- sands of research papers on the subject and about 20 published books devoted in whole or in part to these equations. The v * ...books include those of Myskis 1951 , El' sgol' c 1955 and 1964, Pinney 1958, Krasovskil 1959, Bellman and Cooke 1963, Norkin 1965, Halanay 1966, Oguztoreli 1966, Lakshmikantham and Leela 1969, Mitropol'skir and Martynjuk 1969, Martynjuk 1971, and Hale 1971, plus a number of symposium and seminar proceedings published in the U.S. and the U. S.S.R. These books have influenced the present textbook.
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Driver, Rodney David was born on July 1, 1932 in London. Came to the United States, 1945. Son of William T. and Marjorie E. (Carter) Driver.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Minnesota, 1953. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Minnesota, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, University Minnesota, 1960.
Postdoctoral fellow Research Institute for Advanced Studies, Baltimore, 1960-1961. Staff member Mathematics Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 1961-1962, Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, 1962-1969. Associate professor mathematics University Rhode Island, Kingston, 1969-1974, professor, 1974-1998.
Member Rhode Island House of Representatives, 1987-1994, member District 39, 2008—2010. Executive director Government Accountability Project, 1995.
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Delaware Rhode Island Constnl. Convention, 1986. Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American, Amnesty International, Greenpeace.
Married Carole J. Frandsen, September 4, 1955. Children: David M., Karen L., Bruce K.