George Thomas; professor wrote calculus tome

By Bryan Marquard

Globe Staff / November 15, 2006

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Writing about his childhood, George B. Thomas used simple multiplication to capture the summer he worked on a farm for his uncle in 1924: 10 cents an hour times 10 hours equaled $1 a day. For a 10-year-old in a poor family, that was the equation for eking out an existence. (Full article: 1087 words)