Romuald Ireneus additional information

Societies

I have several memberships that have lapsed; because I cannot afford the dues. By now, they probably have forgotten that I exist!

Societies, in lexicographical order:

1. AAPT = American Association of Physics Teachers. It is a member society of the AIP = American Institute of Physics
2. ADPA = American Defense Preparedness Association. Also known as the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).
3. ACM = Association for Computing Machinery
4. ASA = Acoustical Society of America. It is a member society of the AIP = American Institute of Physics
5. AZA = American Zoo and Aquarium Association
6. IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of the AFL = American Federation of Labor. I am a member in good standing, but inactive.
7. LP = Libertarian Party of California.  I no longer am active; however, they continue to send me an occasional e-mail.
8. MAA = Mathematical Association of America
9. NFLPA = National Free Lance Photographers' Association: POBox 406, Solebury, PA 18963 USA.. They are "presently inactive" and no link is to be found for them.
10. NYAS = New York [City] Academy of Sciences.
11. Planetary Society ... we dream of a manned outpost on Mars.
12. Sigma Pi Sigma, a Physics honor society. Founded independently, it became a member society of the AIP = American Institute of Physics. Then, Sigma Pi Sigma had gone out of existence; but, has been reactivated recently.
13. Smithsonian.
14. Wild Beast Society == the premier support organization for our municipal Zoo -- both a zoological and botanical garden.  I had photographed and described most of our animals.  Regrettably, my hard-disk drive crashed, before I could arrange the current hosting.  My very good friend, Deb, has managed to resurrect some of this work.  My present work-schedule precludes the frivolous luxury of the pleasure of walking and photographing in the zoo.  Thus, I have to be satisfied with the vicarious ZooNet.

Early Education

I was born on Highland Avenue in Highland Park, (Wayne County,) Michigan, USA; at 1435 EST (= Eastern Standard Time), which is 1935 UTC, on Wednesday the 29-th of December 1926. I have been learning from at least that time. This date makes me a Capricorn. This location makes me a US Citizen, by birth. I never have been outside of the Continental United States. On the other hand, by the laws of both Russia and Poland, I inherit the Russian and Polish citizenships from my parents. Thus, I have a triple citizenship.

• Duane Doty grade school, Detroit, Michigan.  Note:  This school is named after James Duane Doty.
  • Never went to kindergarten.
  • First half of first grade Jan 1935 - June 1935. Skipped second half of first grade.
  • Second grade Sept 1935 - June 1936.
  • Skipped third grade.
  • Fourth grade Sept 1936 - June 1937.  Italian court dancing.
• Liberty grade school, Highland Park, Michigan. Note: This school has been promoted to a junior high school.
  • Fifth grade Sept 1937 - June 1938.
  • Sixth grade Sept 1938 - June 1939.
• Highland Park Junior High School, Highland Park, Michigan.
  • Skipped seventh and eight grades.
  • Ninth grade Sept 1939 - June 1940.
    • Carpentry.
    • Metal Shop.
    • A semester each of plane and solid Geometry.
• Highland Park Senior High School, Highland Park, Michigan. College Preparatory.
  • Tenth grade Sept 1940 - June 1941.
    • A semester each of Botany and Zoology, each at a sophomore college level.  Grade of A, each
  • Eleventh grade Sept 1941 - June 1942, and the Summer of 1942.
    • Two semesters of Chemistry, at a sophomore college level.  Grade of A, each
  • First half of twelfth grade Sept 1942 - Jan 1943. I never finished high school; but did graduate in June 1943.
    • Total of eight semesters of Mechanical Drawing.
    • Mathematics through College Algebra.  Grade of A, each

Higher Education

• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne University, Detroit, Michigan. January 1943 to June 1947. Double major: Physics and Mathematics.
  • All Mathematics Department classes, beginning with College Algebra (same textbook as in High School) -- straight A grade.
  • All Physics Department classes, beginning with the science/engineering Sophomore Physics, except photography -- straight A, except the first class a B.
  • Sophomore Psychology and Senior Government, one class of each -- grade A.
  • Chemistry Department: first semester of Sophomore Chemistry; second semester waived. Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, and Micro Quantitative Analysis waived. Both semesters of the Chemistry-major Physical Chemistry. Straight A.  Except for the omission of Organic Chemistry, I would have had a third major:  Chemistry.
  • Audited each of the laboratory classes in the Electrical Engineering Division of the College of Engineering, in exchange for volunteering as a Laboratory Assistant.  This was an informal arrangement -- hence, circumventing numerous official strictures -- with the Dean of the College of Engineering.  It may be noted that the EE Division had state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, thanks to the on-going donations from the Detroit Edison Company.  You be the judge as to the employment or academic equivalent of the experience and knowledge that I gained.
• Graduate School at Wayne University, Detroit, Michigan. June 1947 to Sept 1948. Mathematics major.
  • All Physics Department classes -- straight H grade (H is an archaic grade above an A).  This was just three units shy of a major in Physics.
  • All Mathematics Department classes -- straight H.
  • Examination in German -- passed.
• Graduate School at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. September 1948 to June 1949. Physics major.
  • Some Physics Department classes.
  • Both semesters of Calculus of Variations from the Mathematics Department.
  • Microwaves from the Electrical Engineering Department.
• Graduate School at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. 1955 to 1960. Mathematics major; Electrical Engineering minor.
  • Waived both semesters of Complex Variables.
  • Both semesters of Real Variables -- straight A.
  • Many Geometry classes -- straight A.
  • Both semesters of Algebra -- grade B and C.
  • Only semester of Topology -- a grade of A.
  • Examination in German -- passed.
  • Examination in Russian -- passed.
• Citrus Community College, Glendora, California. January 1961 to June 1961.
  • First semester waived; second semester of Russian -- a grade of A.
• Mt. San Antonio Community College, Walnut, California. 1973 and 1976 to 1982. Art major.
  • Many classes in the Art Department.
  • Some classes in the Physical Education Department.

For anyone who desires to see the actual details, a copy of each of the transcripts is available, upon request.  Warning:  these scanned files are huge.  We provide a summary here.

Employment and Business

A new-fangled Capacity Matrix.

I have engaged in various interesting activities. I have Attempted to earn a living at the same time.

I have written several articles and many letters-to-the-editor. Also, I have various patents. As an Employee, those patents belonged to (and were named by and registered in the name of) my Employer (or his assignee, whose name would be unknown to us). Furthermore, we would not have been informed if the final assignee actually followed through to obtaining the patent. Thus, they are almost impossible to trace, at this time. I only am guessing as to their exact amounts.

Employment (and business) history:

1. Locksmith, self-employed. 1939-1948.
2. Student Assistant. Chemistry Dept. Highland Park Senior High School. 1941-1942. Helped set up and perform demonstration experiments.
3. Student Assistant. Physics Dept. Wayne (State) University. 1943-1947. Graded homework and examinations. Set up experiments and helped students perform them.
4. Chemistry Consultant, self-employed. 1946-1948. Consulting to black and white and color photo-finishing laboratories. I recommended and implemented a change from Potassium Ferriycanide to Potassium Dichromate as the oxidizing agent in the bleach, for environmental reasons. Eastman Kodak Company followed suite more that three decades later.
5. Special Instructor. Physics Dept. Wayne (State) University. 1947-1948. Delivered lectures in and supervised Sophomore Laboratory classes. Delivered Graduate Thermodynamics lectures. An experimental Sophomore Physics laboratory class, with lectures in Polish.
6. Guest Professor. Mathematics Dept. Wayne (State) University. 1947-1948. Graduate Partial Differential Equations, enrollment over 600.
7. Gardener, self-employed. 1948-1949.
8. Senior Electrical Engineer A (GS-9). Hoffman Laboratories, div of Hoffman Radio Corporation. 1949-1959. Technical Manager of Research Section. Staff Scientist (to Karl Wassmansdorf, PhD Chemistry, VP. Director of Research). I was in charge of technical planning for the whole Corporation. Security -- Top Secret and Top Secret Courier.

   Design of black and white and color (CBS and RCA standards) TV. Tacan (= Tactical aircraft navigation) system. Two-way hand-held emergency radio. Sonobuoys, dropped from aircraft. Frequency hopping was vital to the security of their radio transmission. (Do you know who invented the concept of frequency-hopping?) Original research in Modern Network Synthesis (design of filters:  Butterworth, Tschebuchev (either over-coupled or under-coupled), Kolmogorov -- known in USA as von Karman --, transmission-line, comb, minimum phase-shift, constant-delay, etc.). Developed the equation for the basket-weave of a coil (inductor).  Developed the equations for computing the terminating impedance of a termination from the reflected signal at the other end of a transmission line.  Design of both acoustical and radio antennae: primary (Yaggi, loop) and secondary (horn, dish). Solar panels, used on satellites. These were the only successful ones in use by USA into the mid 1970's. Whip telescoping antennae for US submarines. Designed all countermeasure radio spectrum analyzers employed by US until late 1960's. Etc. Computer programming. Extensive electronics designing.

   Taught a semester of College Algebra, based upon the textbook College Algebra by Rider.

   An article, "Analysis of Hypex Horns" (circa 1955), in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and two articles in some publication of the IEEE (= Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), including the article "Consideration of Mechanical and LC Type Filters - Part II". Two (or three) US Patents assigned to the employer.

9. Owner, licensed Maedchental Kennels. 1955-current. Breeder and handler of AKC (= American Kennel Club) registered German Shepherd Dogs Actually, I began professionally in 1942; but, only became licensed in 1955.  Recent city2002 city 2005 and county licenses.  Recent rabies vaccination Wolczica (21.4 Kgm -- somewhat underweight), Koszmar (38.6 Kgm), Freckles [sic. sex & age] (33.2 Kgm), Strelica (34.5 Kgm), and Sagitarius (59.1 Kgm -- too many avocados consumed).  Each of them was weighted, near the end of June (VI) 2002, with the indicated results.  Eridanus 65 Kgm (and growing).  Current rabies vaccinations.
10. Owner, Avocado Orchard. 1955-current.
11. Design Specialist (GS-10). Rheem Manufacturing Company. 1959. Began life-long research in Information Theory. Computer programming. Security -- Top Secret.
12. Scientist A (GS-12). Aerojet General Corporation, div of General Tire & Rubber Company. 1959-1962. System Manager (over all the associated contractors) of the surveillance drone which flew over Vietnam. (Eventually, this drone was purchased and manufactured by the Ryan Aircraft Corporation, in San Diego, California.) Detailed specification of sensors: TV, photographic, IR (= Infra Red), side-looking synthetic-aperture radar. Inertial navigation, employing the equations which I derived for the Army coordinate system.. This was the first ever digital computer to employ a crystal-controlled master oscillator, at my insistence. Programmable flight controller. Forward looking terrain-avoidance radar. Inertially stabilized, uncoordinated small-turns analogue auto-pilot. Secure spread-spectrum two-way communications, which was crucial to the success of this drone.. (Do you know who invented and patented the spread-spectrum concept? Its inventor intended it to be employed as a secure-communications system for the control of airplane-deployed torpedoes, during the Second World War. by the US Navy.) Ground controller and processing station, including automatic rectification of images. Designed automatic exposure. Specified film and processing chemistry. Research in Information Theory. Computer programming. A US Patent assigned to the employer. Security -- Top Secret.
13. Senior Scientist A (GS-14). Nortronics, div of Northrop Corporation. 1962-1968. In-house consultant and wrote numerous computer programs. Research in Information Theory. An article in a US Navy Journal. A US Patent assigned to the employer. Security -- Top Secret and above (the very existence of the level is classified).
14. Research Scientist (GS-15). JPL (= Jet Propulsion Laboratory, div of California Institute of Technology. 1968-1972. Staff Scientist and Chief of Staff of Research Department. (With Mr. Gunter Redmann), co-Technical Manager of JPL. Began research in TMG (a self-compiling meta-compiler, using TMGL, a superset of BNF). Computer programming. Eight articles in the Journal published by JPL. Security -- Top Secret.
15. licensed Bee Keeper and registered Bee Controller. 1972-1982.
16. Corporal Security Officer, armed. Wells Fargo Security Guard Services, div of Baker Industries, renamed Borg-Warner Security Corporation, then Burns International Services Corporation, which does not have a working Web site. 1973-1981. Stationed (and in charge of) numerous posts within eighty (or more) kilometres of here. Research in Information Theory. Security -- Top Secret.
17. Tutor, self-employed. 1974-current.
18. Tutor. Mt. San Antonio Community College. 1977-1980.
    • authorized subjects
      • Mathematics
      • Physics
      • Chemistry
      • Computer Science
      • Biology
    • authorized locations
      • Learning Disabilities Center
      • Learning Assistance Center
      • EOPS = Educational Opportunities, Programs, and Services
      • Veterans' Administration
      • Data Processing (Business Division)
      • private, through Placement Office
19. Laboratory Technician -- Mathematics. Natural Sciences Division of Mt. San Antonio Community College. 1-IX-1979-current. As Certificated Instructor, in charge of the Natural Sciences Division Tutorial and Computer Laboratory, in the evenings. Supervising the Lab. Helping Students use the computers, tutoring them in any Natural Science subject, administering examinations.
    On 01-st August 2001, temporarily transferred to the Photo-graphics Department of the Natural Sciences Division, to help teach Computer Graphics.  We have a new name for this set of classes:  "Visual Media Institute".  It is a very exciting two-campus endeavor by the six of us.  On 19-th February 2002, back to the Computer Laboratory, which now has been moved to the Biology Department.  On 01-st August 2003, transferred to the Math Lab of the Mathematics Department.
20. Consultant to Delphi Data div. of Sparks Industries. 1980-1995. Original research in Linear Algebra, algorithms, and wrote computer programs. Developed a relational data-base and a system for designing applications thereof. Co-inventor of patented memory and other resource management. Designed a caching disk controller system. Etc. Computer programming. Some electronics designing. US Patent number 5355469, describing an automatic run-time resource monitoring system, which flags any leaks. As a Consultant (rather than an Employee), I retain my co-inventor rights.  Delphi Data no longer exists; but, one of the owners now has bold motion.
21. Consultant, self-employed. 1980-current. Learning Windows NT (renamed the prosaic "Windows 2000"; now "Windows 2003") and the Internet, and Computer Graphics. on my own computers. I would like to continue my research in Information Theory, Linear Algebra, and the TMG meta-compiler. Shareware program to perform six-way analysis of variance, with the supporting database.  Author of a the Textbook of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and Geometry. (It is the only in-print textbook of Spherical Trigonometry; the last prior textbook having been published in 1934.)  Author of the Textbook of Linear Algebra, in which I develop my original proof of the existence, uniqueness, and constructive algorithm for the factorization of a general real or complex matrix A into a bra <, spectrum D, and ket >, as A = < D >.  This factorization was proposed and named, in the mid 1940s, by P. A. M. Dirac.  However, neither he nor anyone else ever has succeeded in accomplishing this factorization.  This factorization is a generalization from the concept of eigenvalue-eigenvector (eigenpair), as applied to symmetric matrices, already for two centuries.  Also original are the analysis of a channel and multi-dimensional linear-regression; because, each requires the aforementioned factorization of a general real matrix.  Likewise, the axis of rotation of either an ortho-normal or an unitary matrix is original.  Developed a shareware C-program corresponding to the aforementioned Textbook of Linear Algebra.
    I have had the dubious honor of being my own Webmaster of this site, since its inception on the 31-st of August 1995.
22. Assistant Editor of Lament, the Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Commentary. 1997-2000. This publication recently has been renamed L.A. Mentary. Initial preparation of submitted articles and letters. Contributed several own articles. Monthly "Calendar at a Glance", on the whole back cover.
23. Research Assistant GLAZA (= Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association), at the Zoo Department of the City of Los Angeles 1997-1999. Help with the statistical design of behavioral observational experiments, gathering of data, and the statistical analyzes. Wrote a computer program to facilitate the analysis of variance.
24. Member of the Friends of the Faire at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, in Devore, California. May 1998-current.  In April 1999, accepted as a Participant, in the role of Peasant.  In July 2000, promoted to Scholar, with the thesis Astrolabium.  "Meet and Greet" in front of the Faire, Italian court "Dancing with the Nobles" (See how useful my fourth-grade education was?), "Circles of Celebration" and "Rabble Rousers" at the Queen's Joust.  Sayings: Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.  Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic (Arthur C. Clark).  Physics (including Cosmology), Chemistry (including Crystallography), or Computer Science, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from Mathematics.
    Beginning with the 2005 season, the venue has been moved to the Santa Fe Dam, in Irvindale, California.  I am posting these two montages -- R1 and R2 -- of portraits of myself, with the kind permission of my good friend, Allen de Rico, who is the copyright (c) 2005 holder.  Do you not agree that he is an excellent photographer?  During the 2006 season, I also was a member of the Construction Crew and the Circles of Celebration.  On Sunday the 20th of May 2006, I was knighted by her Majesty.
25. Expert of Science --> Mathematics --> other (mathematics) at AskMe 19-III-2000 through 31-X-2002 (which is the last day that AskMe remained functional), under the name rism.  Whereupon, for a short time, I moved to Education & Science --> Mathematics at WeTellYou, under the same name rism.  But, it was not the same; hence, I quit.

Fields in which I would like to engage: Anything interesting, including

• Mathematics
  • Real Variables
  • Complex Variables
    • my research in Elliptic Functions
  • Geometry
    • elementary Geometry
    • Riemannian Geometry
  • Topology, including Algebraic Topology
  • Algebra
    • Simple Groups
    • Galois Field Theory
  • my research of Information Theory
• Computer Science
  • my development of the TMG meta-compiler
  • my research of Linear Algebra
• Electronics
  • my research in Modern Network Synthesis
  • my development of secure coherent multi-level spread-spectrum quadrature double-sideband suppressed-carrier modulation
• Computer Graphics, including Web design
• Physics
• Physical Chemistry
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • structure, including Crystallography
  • Thermodynamics

Hey! I need money. Retain me!!!! My US Social Security number is ???-??-???? ("not to be used for identification").  I have removed the actual number, out of respect to my many friends who expressed their (misplaced) concern.  However, the SSN never had been intended for identification and it never has been secure -- anybody who wants to do so can obtain anybody else's SSN easily and with impunity, regardless of her/his motives.  If you want to obtain my SSN from me; please send me a signed e-mail, with your public key.  Then, I will send a signed encrypted copy of my SSN to you.  If you want to obtain my SSN from elsewhere; I have no way of preventing your doing so  Neither do I have any way of knowing that you did so or who you are.  Besides, the SSN is passé -- now that we have secure digital ID available.  Please ask for my public key or obtain it yourself from VeriSign.

My ancestry

the genealogy of our family