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Joshua Holden (born 4 June 1970) is an American mathematician and is a professor of mathematics at RHIT (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology). In 1998, he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University. He also received a A.B in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 and obtained a A.M. in mathematics from Brown University in 1994. His specialization in mathematics involves algebraic and computational number theory and also cryptography. He is the author of The Mathematics of Secrets.

Career
Holden has been conducting mathematical research since 1998. He has authored and co-authored 15 publications about number theory, cryptography, and the computational applications of number theory and cryptography. Five of these publications are about discrete logarithms. Holden has also received grants for, developed, and instructed his curriculum at Duke University and Brown University. While he was an Assistant Teaching Professor in 2000 at Duke University, he developed and taught “Cryptography and Society”. At Brown University in 1996, he taught “Calculus and its History” while he was Assistant Professor. He has also developed further courses for his instruction at RHIT, Manchester College, and Goshen College. He became a full professor at RHIT in 2014. Holden has written the book The Mathematics of Secrets. It was used as a textbook for the course “Classical Cryptography” at The Master Security and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam. Holden’s has consulted Vadium Technology with cryptography in 2003.

Honors and Awards
Holden has received honors and awards, which are:


 * Honorary Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (since 2008)
 * Best Paper Submitted to the ME Division (won in 2005 at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.)