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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe

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Free-range mathematician. Unitarian Universalist minister. He/him Support 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️rights! https://ewhowe.com https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T1o9ixcAAAAJ #MathSky #math #maths #mathematics #UnitarianUniversalist

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 20h

… but he adds intentional typos.

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 2d

I don’t know what might be going on, but my best wishes for you, no matter what it is.

Here’s a photo of the five street toughs who were hanging around the neighborhood where I’m staying…

A photo of a street in a residential neighborhood. Two houses — and the street in front of them — are in the shot. But what is most noticeable is that there are five cats on the street, sidewalk, and driveways.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 3d

Soup is good food!

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 3d

Visiting family in Sacramento, staying at an AirBnB. Had breakfast with one of my oldest friends. May get a chance to work on editing a joint paper after the big family lunch gathering today.

A balding white man with wire-frame glasses and a grey mustache holds up a large yellow coffee mug with a leaf design on it. In the background is a tree-lined residential street.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand.

“Source: BrainyQuote dot com”

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"non-reductive Lie group"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“There was no syllabus”

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 4d

Today we celebrate all who are coming out—sharing your truth, living it out loud, or still finding the right moment. Coming out takes courage, honesty, and hope. However your journey unfolds, you are loved and held in community.

#NationalComingOutDay #UnitarianUniversalist #LGBTQ+ #Pride

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 4d

“Though the cause of Evil prosper,
Yet ’tis Truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be Wrong,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the Shadow,
Keeping watch above his own!”

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 4d

The hymn “Once to Every Soul and Nation,” adapted from James Russell Lowell’s 1845 poem “The Present Crisis,” captures this. One of the verses:

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 6d

I’ve become very attached to it!

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 7d

Another option that the advertising department might like would be “smooth”… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_...

Smooth number - Wikipedia

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 7d

The algorithm was finally written up in the published version (from 2020) of Serre’s course notes for a class he taught in 1985. smf.emath.fr/publications...

Rational points on curves over finite fields | Société Mathématique de France

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 7d

(Here’s a statement of the bound. Note that it involves finding the solution 𝜑 to a trigonometric equation.)

A statement of the Oesterlé bound on the number of points on a curve of genus g over a finite field. The statement is complicated, and involves computing trigonometric functions applied to a the root of an equation that also involves trig functions.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 7d

This is making me feel smug that 15 years ago, when I wanted to implement a method for computing the Oesterlé bound for the number of points on a genus-g curve over 𝐅_q, I developed an algorithm to do so that uses only rational arithmetic. I didn’t trust floating point computations.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 9d

What percentage were complaints about your team insulting your user base? That’s certainly one way to increase the count!

Bluesky @bsky.app · 9d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10d

who/whom/whomst

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10d

Was on a retreat for the first part of the week, so I had lots of things to do in the past few days to catch up.

This is in my home office. Painted so that the walls match a lot of the books on my shelves.

A balding white man with glasses and a grey mustache smiles while holding a coffee mug (decorated with a kookaburra) near his face. Behind him are bookshelves and an out-of-focus black and white print, hanging on a wall painted Springer yellow.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 17d

So exhausting..

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 14d

Did it yesterday for HUD.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 15d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 15d

I just bought a Remarkable Pro, primarily for reading from while giving sermons (not your use case!), but I have also used it to annotate papers I am refereeing and do light edits on. The writing experience is 10000x better than writing on an iPad with an Apple Pencil, IMO.

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 17d

Probably no time for math today :( but at least I had my coffee from this mug.

A balding white man with black wire rim glasses and a gray mustache is standing in front of a window with plants outside, holding a coffee mug. The mug has an image on it that looks like an oval next to a large left open parenthesis. The text above the images says “Esto no es una curva elíptica,” and beneath the image it says “28–31 Octubre.”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 18d

I should have invested in a bottle of The Macallan.

A grocery store shelf tag for bottles of The Macallan 30-year-old single malt Scotch, showing a price of $5499.99 for a 750 ml bottle. But the price per bottle if you are a member and buy six of them is only $4949.99!

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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 19d

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.

But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 19d

Sir! The “Guide to Musical Theatre” web site begs to disagree!

Synopsis:
This exuberant musical, with a delightful score, conjures up the timeless dream world of work shy, beer-swilling Andy Capp, known the world over from Reg Smythe’s cartoon strip in the Daily Mirror

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 19d

I think I had heard rumors, but I had never sought out a recording!

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