Michael Meo
3003 N.E. Weidler St.
Portland OR 97232
<mmeo@pps.k12.or.us>
Michael Meo's web page at Benson
Polytechnic
Teacher
RELATED CAPABILITIES
- Helped develop, as recipient (2001-02) of Partners in Science grant, quantum-mechanical description of
nanoparticles
- Translated a history of differential calculus from German to English
- Oversaw construction, at Smithsonian Institution of first national exhibit of high-energy accelerators
EDUCATION
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California Inst. of Technology |
B.S., Astronomy |
1969 |
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University of Calif. |
Berkeley M.A., History of Science |
1970 |
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Laney College |
A.A., Electronics |
1981 |
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California State Univ. |
Hayward teaching credential |
1986 |
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Portland State University |
M.S., Mathematics |
1999 |
TEACHING POSITIONS (last 20 years)
Oct 2002 - present: Benson Polytechnic High School, Portland OR. English, physical science, history, and mathematics
chair of Math dept ; adjunct professor of math, PSU.
Sept 1997 - Oct 2002: Teacher, Grant High School, Portland OR. Taught mathematics, AP physics.
Sept 1990 - Jun 1997: ESL Building Liaison Teacher, Roosevelt High School, Portland OR.
Taught English, history, math, physical science.
Nov 1989 - Jun 1990: Substitute teacher, Lincoln High School, Portland OR.
Taught calculus.
Oct 1988 - Jun 1989: Business Instructor, CareerCom College of Business, Oakland CA.
Taught English, math, job skills to postsecondary adults.
PUBLICATIONS
20 biographical articles on prominent physicists in American Academic Encyclopedia, various volumes, 1980
Translation of A.D. Aleksandrov, “Mathematics: Its Essential Nature and Objective Laws,” Science and Nature, 1980 (3): 22-40
Translation of Karl Marx, Mathematical Manuscripts, (London: New Park) 1983, 283 pp.
Book review of Marx’s math, Ganita Bharati [Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics],1987, 9 (1-4): 78-80
Book review of G. E. Christianson, “Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution,” Isis, 1999, 90(4): 807-808.
“The Mathematical Life of Cauchy’s Group Theorem,” Historia
Mathematica, 2004, 31 (3): 196-225
Eight biographies in Thomas Hockey, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, New York, Springer, 2007 [3 in vol. I, 5 in vol. II]
Five biographies in Supplement to Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History, volumes 8, 9, 10, 2007 – 2009
“The Invariant Twins,” essay review of biographies of Arthur Cayley and J. J. Sylvester,
Metascience, 2008, vol. 17: 27-32.
(in preparation): translation, with commentary, of Zinaida
Sokolovskaia-Novokshanova, Vasilii Yakovlevich Struve [biography of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm
Struve]
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