Faculty: Mathematics & Computer Science
Contact
Phone: 847-735-5153
Email: holliday@lakeforest.edu
- January 24
Students in Professor Bob Holliday’s First Year Studies course, Robots, Termites, Bits, and Bytes, developed their own programs that directed LEGO robots they built to deliver various messages to several professors’ offices in Young Hall. More »
Robert L. Holliday
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
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
