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: Here’s my Bluesky profile. At this point, it’s the only social media I use regularly. I do also have profiles on Mastodon (that I sometimes visit) and Twitter (that I never visit).
• New! A page about Sprinkle Islands, a children’s iPad game from 2013 that I have been playing obsessively since New Years 2025. I detail a way to estimate strict upper bounds on the maximum score per level, and I give my high scores for each level. I hope that these will help people currently playing the game.
• 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:
  • An annotated bibliography of all of my math papers, with links to electronic versions.
  • A small collection of slides of talks I have given.
  • A page of my choral music compositions.
  • A page of other writing, mostly related to Unitarian Universalism.
• 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 F_q.
• 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!