Louis Blois has been a member of the CSI math department since 1975 and since that time has taught every one of the undergraduate math courses through the calculus sequence. He has authored texts on a variety of mathematical subjects including graph theory, transfinite sets, continued fractions and general number theory, voting systems and apportionment, cryptology, and calendar math. His current teaching interests include finding unusual math topics to motivate the liberal arts population. He is also a freelance musicologist specializing in the classical music of the 20th Century, and one of the contributing essayists in the collection, The Shostakovich Reader, published by Greenwood Press. His liner notes appear on a number of currently available CDs of piano and orchestral music and he is a regular contributor to the Shostakovich Journal.