Ron Larson, June, 2002 Born ( 1941-10-31) October 31, 1941 (age 76),, U.S. Occupation Professor, author, mathematician Citizenship American Education A.A., B.S., M.A., Ph.D. Alma mater Spouse Deanna Sue Larson Children Timothy Larson Jill Larson Im Website Roland 'Ron' Edwin Larson (born October 31, 1941) is a professor of mathematics at, Pennsylvania.

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He is best known for being the author of a series of widely used mathematics textbooks ranging from middle school through the second year of college. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Ron Larson was born in near, the second of four children of Mederith John Larson and Harriet Eleanor Larson. Mederith Larson was an officer in the of the. Mederith Larson served in active duty during, where he was awarded a and a, and the, where he was awarded an and a. During the years that Ron was growing up, his father was stationed in several military bases, including, Japan and. While in Chitose, Ron attended a small school, where he was one of only three students in the sixth grade. When Mederith Larson retired from the Army in 1957, he moved with his family to Vancouver, Washington, where he lived until he died (at the age of 89) in 2005.

Harriet Larson died (at the age of 95) in the fall of 2009. San Andreas Frame Limiter Patch. Larson spent his first two years of high school at in Wahiawa, Hawaii. In 1957, when his family moved to, Larson enrolled in, where he graduated in 1959.

On October 29, 1960, at the age of 18, he married Deanna Sue Gilbert, also of Vancouver, Washington. Deanna Gilbert was the second child of Herbert and Dorothy Gilbert. Ron and Deanna Larson have two children, Timothy Roland Larson and Jill Deanna Larson Im, five living grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Their first grandchild, Timothy Roland Larson II, died at birth on summer solstice, June 21, 1983. Larson is the third generation of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants who left Scandinavia to homestead in Minnesota in the late 1800s.

The surnames and immigration dates of his great-grandparents are Bangen (1866, Norway), Berg (1867, Norway), Larson (1868, Norway), and Watterburg (1879, Sweden). Education [ ] From 1959 until 1962, Ron and Deanna Larson started and operated a small business, called Larson's Custom Quilting. In 1962, they sold the business and Ron began attending in Vancouver, Washington. In 1964, he obtained his associate's degree from Clark.

Upon graduation from Clark College, Larson was awarded a scholarship from the Foundation, which he used to attend in. He graduated, with honors, from Lewis & Clark in 1966. During the four years from 1962 through 1966, Ron worked full-time, first at a restaurant and then at a grocery store, in Vancouver and Deanna worked full-time as the secretary to the president of Roberts Motor Company in Portland, Oregon.

From 1966 to 1970, Larson attended graduate school at the. He received his master's degree in 1968 and his Ph.D. In mathematics in 1970. While at the University of Colorado, Larson was the recipient of an scholarship and an fellowship.

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Larson's Ph.D. Lineage, as listed by the, traces back through,,, and, the co-developer of calculus.

Star Wars Iso Pc on this page. Academic career [ ]. Larson and Hostetler signing first contract, 1976 In 1970, Larson accepted a position of assistant professor at in. At the time, Behrend College was a 2-year branch campus of the university. In 1971, the Board of Trustees of the University met with the Behrend Advisory Board to announce Behrend College would become the first location outside University Park with the authority to develop baccalaureate program and confer degrees locally. During his first several years at the college, Larson was instrumental in developing a mathematics major at the college. He served as a member of the University Faculty Senate and also as Behrend College's representative on the University Faculty Council.

Larson was promoted to associate professor in 1976 and professor in 1983. Early in his career at Penn State, Larson started writing manuscripts for textbooks. He completed and submitted three manuscripts for calculus texts in 1973, 1974, and 1975. Only to be rejected by several publishers. Larson relates his determination to continue writing in an essay titled A Single Dream. 'When was asked if she had been lucky in her career, she said 'When you have a single dream it is more than likely to come true---because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.'