2D and 3D Geometry Exhibit on Euclid [{(∈ ⩌ ⊂∟∣ ⫒)}] Avenue, Of Course - Where Else?

"On the avenue... Euclid Avenue... Euclid was the Greek inventor of the area of mathematics known as Geometry. Many cities and towns have a Euclid Avenue, especially if they have an institute of higher learning. Tucson is fortunate to have the University of Arizona, which is a world class institute in Optics, Astronomy, and Cosmology. Also in Marine studies, surprisingly enough. We are fortunate to have the Biosphere 2 as a recently acquired part of the U of A. This crane is erecting a building on the U of A's Tucson campus. The grounds of the U of A are an arboretum... I love walking amongst the various specimens and admiring them...

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I love all visualizing all the rectangles and the triangles dwelling in this scene ... both 2D and 3D (Two dimensional and three dimensional) geometric shapes... Prisms, prisms, parallelepipeds, etc... It would be fun to draw in the missing lines and surfaces at the tops of the unfinished columns...

 

Toward the end of our Weequahic High School's geometry class, - Secondary school in the US is called high school. I wonder why. - Dr Ernest Ranucci liked to have us all sit with no pencil and paper, and he would ask us word to visualize three dimensional shapes. He would mentally move them around and ask us what the intersections looked like... That was exciting... I had never imagined anything like that before. What fun!!! I hated to miss his classes when I cut school to go the beach at the Jersey Shore (New Jersey) starting in April of my junior, i.e., 3rd year.

 

I remember that Dr. Ranucci was awarded his doctorate in math while we were in his classes. Years later, while I was in Graduate School, after Sputnik, he was appointed to a national committee dedicated to improving our elementary and secondary school science and math programs. I recently found out what his thesis topic was. It involved new and innovative ways of teaching mathematics to high school students. I realize he was using us to explore and work out his ideas... He really gave my fellow students and me quite an education... Doing mind experiments has always seemed like fun, and he comes to mind... I can still see him in my mind's eye.

 

We had quite a few brilliant and exciting teachers at Weequahic high. Some of them are:

George C. Martino: Chemistry

Clarence Seltzer: Physics

Walter Eisenberg: Physics

Dorothy Bergman: Science (And My Homeroom Teacher)

Ernest R. Ranucci, Ph.D.: Chairman Math Department

Bernard Friedberg: Spanish

Simon Chasen: French

Harold LaPenna: English

 

Stories out of school - I can tell quite a few stories about my wonderful teachers... Some are quite funny...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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