Robert Holliday
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emeritus
- 847-735-5153
- holliday@lakeforest.edu
Specialization
Combinatorics
Block Designs
Interests
Elementary Cryptography
Education
PhD Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
MS Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
BS University of Missouri at Rolla
Courses Taught
Computer Science 214:Digital Logic
Computer Science 213: Computer Architecture
Computer Science 417: Algorithms
Computer Science 434: Theory of Computation
Mathematics 375: Combinatorics
Books
Author (Jointly with Lowell Carmony)—A First Course In Computer Science with Turbo Pascal, Computer Science Press 1991
Author (Jointly with Lowell Carmony)—A First Course in Modula-2, Compuer Science Press, 1990
Articles
Liars and Truthtellers: Learning Logic from Raymond Smullyan, Math Horizons (A publication of the MAA), September, 2005
Algorithms, McGill’s Survery of Science: Physical Science, Salem Press, May, 1998
Cryptography and Public Key Cryptosystems, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, May, 1994
Some Nonexistence Results for Strongly alpha-Resolvable Designs, Congressus Numerantium, Vol 90, Nov, 199
Graph Theory in the High School Curriculum, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics—1991 Yearbook, 1991
A Scheduling Problem: Modeling, Approximate Algorithms, and Implementation, with Lowell Carmony, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Feb, 1987