Everett Howe
B.S. 1986 (Mathematics), Caltech
Ph.D. 1993 (Mathematics), U.C. Berkeley
M.Div. 2019, Starr King School for the Ministry
- My contact information.
- Social media: my profiles on Mastodon and
Twitter (for as long as that lasts).
- My (mostly dormant) blog, The Humanist Seminarian.
I’m not a seminarian any more — I graduated in 2019 — but I will keep using
the URL and blog name, at least for a while. My most recent posts have been about a primary source
for a quotation about which there is much misinformormation online and in books: it begins
“I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining,” although a better translation
would be “I believe in the sun, even when it is dark.”
- My writing and creative work:
- A site, manypoints.org,
devoted to keeping track of the most current results about
the maximum number of rational points on a genus-g
curve over Fq.
- My wife Isabella Furth’s professional web page for her business as a writer, editor, researcher, and designer.
- Useful math links.
- A very old page of miscellaneous links.
- The Nearly Anacrophonic Phonetic Alphabet — NAPA for short —
provides a better way of making it clear what letter of the alphabet you’re talking about.
The standard NATO phonetic alphabet (alfa for A, bravo for B, and so on) completely ignores
the basic principle of anacrophony. The NAPA uses it as much as possible. Now when I spell out my
name over the phone to a customer service agent
I say “H as in heir, O as in oneing, W as in wrest, E as in ewe.”
- New! Speaking of phonetic alphabets, here is a new way to communicate digits
over a noisy communications channel. As opposed to the NAPA, this phonetic digit
system is perhaps actually useful. Featured in Atlas Obscura!