History: Ross Lee Finney III

["Mike Grissom" <mpg1@coastside.net>]

radsafe'rs,

The following obituary was in the 8/15/00 issue of
the San Jose Mercury News (this author of math
textbooks may touch on memories of many HPs from
their undergraduate years):

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Ross Lee Finney III,
wrote math textbooks

Ross Lee Finney III, a mathematician whose textbooks
have instructed millions of high school and college
students, died Aug. 3 [2000] in Carmel Valley [California,
USA]. He was 67.

The cause was a cancer-related illness, according to his
publisher, Addison-Wesley of Reading, Mass.

Dr. Finney wrote texts on the functions of calculus, and
he wrote book chapters, articles and research papers. He
collaborated with Dr. George B. Thomas of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology to produce the text, "Calculus and
Analytic Geometry," which recently went into its 10th edition.

A third edition of his "Calculus" was issued by Addison-Wesley
last year. Dr. Finney also wrote parts of a widely used calculus
text for advanced-placement programs in high school.

Dr. Finney, a son of the composer Ross Lee Finney, was born in
Springfield, Mass., and received his undergraduate and Ph.D.
degrees at the University of Michigan in the 1950s and '60s. He
was a Fulbright scholar at the Poincare Institute in Paris and
started his teaching career at Princeton in 1963.

He taught at MIT from 1980 to 1990.

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S.,

MikeG.
mikeg@slac.stanford.edu
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