16 Facts About Rod Driver

Rodney David Driver was a British-born American mathematician known for research on differential equations, and a former Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.

Rod Driver was reelected on November 4,2008, and represented the 39th District consisting of parts of Richmond, Exeter, and Charlestown from January 6,2009, to January 4,2011.

Rod Driver was a US citizen from birth via his father's citizenship.

Shortly after V-E Day in 1945, the Rod Driver family was able to travel to the United States where they established residency in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Carole and Rod Driver had three children, David, Karen and Bruce, before he completed his Ph.

Rod Driver accepted a visiting appointment at the Research Institute for Advanced Studies in Baltimore, Maryland in 1960 and another at the Army Mathematics Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin in 1961 before joining the staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1962.

Rod Driver joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Rhode Island in 1969, and was active at the university until his retirement from academia in 1998.

Rod Driver's research involved delay differential equations and their applications, including the prediction and modeling of the path of ionic particles in electromagnetic fields.

Rod Driver authored three mathematics books and dozens of research papers.

Rod Driver has lectured in Europe as well as across the United States on his research into mathematics.

Since 1951, Rod Driver devoted much effort toward peace and human rights in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Rod Driver's major contribution to the convention was a motion for a "neutral re-write" that converted a confusing 19,000-word draft document that included all stricken language from the previous 1843 Constitution and with all of its amendments upon amendments, to an 8,000-word readable constitution that is in current use.

Rod Driver routinely opposed proposed longer prison sentences for non-violent offenses, and he was a leader in the eventually-successful efforts to ban smoking in schools and to strengthen the law against selling tobacco products to children.

In 1993 Rod Driver was appointed to the House Finance Committee.

Rod Driver was reelected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives on November 4,2008, and has represented the 39th District consisting of parts of Richmond, Exeter, and Charlestown since January 6,2009.

Rod Driver died at the St Elizabeth Home in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, on January 16,2022, at the age of 89.