Joshua Holden's Personal Home Page

Contact Info

Office Location: G207
Office Phone: (812) 877-8320
Office Fax: (812) 877-8883
Email Address: holden@rose-hulman.edu
Web Page: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~holden
Mailing Address:

Schedule

My schedule from the Schedule Lookup Page
My schedule as posted on my door (including office hours)

Personal Information

Born Joshua Brandon, June 4, 1970, in Mankato, Minnesota. Not dead yet.
Married Lana Holmes, April 9, 1994, in Norwich, Vermont. (We combined our names. Get it?)
There's more personal information on my Facebook page.
A.B. in Mathematics, Harvard University, 1992.
A.M. in Mathematics, Brown University, 1994.
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Brown University, 1998.
Postdoctoral position, Mathematics Department, University of Massachusetts, 1997--1999.
Postdoctoral position, Mathematics Department, Duke University, 1999--2001.
Tenure-track position, Mathematics Department, Rose-Hulman Insitute of Technology, 2001--present.
I used to be a member of the extremely (something) Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Here are pictures. Unfortunately, I had to resign now that I've cut my hair!

Classes

My courses on Moodle

Other unusual courses

Professional Interests

Number Theory and Cryptography

Algebraic number theory, specifically class fields and class field towers
Computational and algorithmic number theory, especially algorithmic algebraic number theory and number theory related to cryptography
Number Theory Web (Highly recommended if you're a number theorist!)
MathWorld (Highly recommended if you're anyone!)

Mathematics and the Arts

Mathematics and fiber arts, particularly graph theory and embroidery

Things I've Written

Preprints, reprints, and posters
Talks about teaching
Undergraduate talks
Undergraduate research projects
My (semi-)professional blog (Right now, focused on the use of Tablet PCs in undergrad math education)

My Curriculum Vitae

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PostScript format
PDF format

I used to have a link to a list of interesting web sites here. But that's so 1990's, don't you think? (Besides, I couldn't keep it up to date!)

Why school standards are declining

From a Massachusetts teacher's newsletter, 1924:

Only 10 out of every 1,000 American boys are graduated from college. Of every 1,000 boys in first grade, 970 go on to the second grade, 940 remain through the third grade, 905 the fourth grade, 830 the fifth grade, 735 the sixth grade, 630 the seventh grade, and 490 the eighth grade. Of the original 1,000, only 230 enter the high school, 170 finish the second year, 120 the third year, and 95 are graduated from the high school. Fifty men enter college, 40 keep on to the end of the second year, 20 to the end of the junior year, and 10 are graduated.

No wonder the ones who made it through could meet higher standards!

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