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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe
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Free-range mathematician. Unitarian Universalist minister. He/him

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It’s interesting: Newspaper food sections that mentioned the book when it was published say more about him than the book itself. Here’s a clip from the Los Angeles Daily News (12/1/1954). Also, his obituary in the Biloxi Sun (1/24/1983).
JESSE WILLIS LEWIS was born in 1895 in Bay St. Louis, Miss, where he still lives. He left school in the eighth grade to wait on table in a boarding house. Later, he had his first Job as cook on a Mobile-New Orleans tugboat. When only 18 years of age he joined the extensive kitchen staff of Marshall Ballard, editor of the New Or-Jeans Item. And it was under [obscured] Ballard's guidance that [Jesse] learned to plan menus, and serve, as well as to cook with an inspired skill which could transform mere food into a feast. As Jesse himself puts it, he presided as "chief cook and bottlewasher" for the Ballards and their five children for 40 years. JESSIE LEWIS SR. GULFPORT - Jessie Willis Lewis Sr., 87, a resident of 207 Caron Lane in Bay St. Louis, died Friday in Bay St. Louis. He was employed as a cook with the Marshall Ballard family for 64 years and was cited for a cookbook he had written in 1964. Survivors include four sons, Willis Lewis of Gulfport, Jessie Lewis Jr. of Los Angeles, Calif., Arthur Lewis of Bay St. Louis and Edward Lewis of Carson, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Rose Mary Bell of Bay St. Louis and Mrs. Yvonne Lewis Thomas of Long Beach, Calif.; 27 grandchildren; and 27 great-grandchildren. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 10 to 11 a.m. at St. Rose de Lima Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, where services will be conducted at 11. Burial will follow in Cedar Rest Cemetery. J.T. Hall Funeral Home in Gulfport is in charge of arrangements.
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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My eyes started rolling as soon as Begala’s name came up, and then I got to this quote and wondered why anyone would want an opinion from someone who characterizes the left like this. The “Mamdani’s win ain’t all that” take was icing on the cake.
Begala argued that the very fact that “Mamdani ran on cost of living and did not focus on the woke white left's agenda of identity, guilt and grievance”…
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Could use a physical pinball machine too!
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Photo of the playing field of the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein pinball game from the 490s
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Traveling this weekend — on my way home from a conference in Charlotte, NC. Flight boards in about 2.5 hours… currently.

Not hungry right now, but kind of hoping I will become so so that I can get some collards. (Some BBQ as well, but the collards are the attraction.)
Profile selfie of a white man wearing wire-rim glasses and a KN-95 mask. In te background, we see part of an airport concourse at a lower level than the photographer, with crowds of travelers walking in both directions, and a few tables from a food court.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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From earlier today!

We gave away candy to about 225 kids…
A selfie of an older, balding man with a grey mustache. He is wearing wire frame glasses and a grey button down shirt with a blue horizontal lines, and he is holding a white coffee mug with a graphic design in purple near his face. He is outside of a house, and there are crocheted skull decorations hanging in one of the windows behind him.
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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The New Republic posted a link to the video from the trash right-wing network RSBN showing Trump in Japan wandering aimlessly about a room. But the chyron at the bottom made me wonder what’s going on in the psyches of RSBN’s editors…
Screencap from a video from the Right Side Broadcasting Network showing a Japanese soldier in dress uniform trying to guide Donald Trump to where he is supposed to go. The chyron says: “Sex warfare: Chine, Russia are sending beautiful women to seduce tech lords and…” Screencap from a video from the Right Side Broadcasting Network showing the Prime Minister of Japan trying to guide Donald Trump to where he is supposed to go. The chyron says: “…are sending beautiful women to seduce tech lords and steal their secrets.”
October 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Among the many, many good points here:
Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The publisher Springer has been driven into the ground by private equity and AI and will f*ck up your paper, Exhibit #72,684
A screenshot of part of the bibliography of an academic paper, with several author names highlighted in yellow: D. Feo Luca, J. David, P. Jérôme, D. Christina, G.D. Steven, and D. Max. (The highlighted names are all incorrect; they should be L. De Feo, D. Jao, J. Plût, C. Delfs, S. D. Galbraith, and M. Deuring.)
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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LOL! I also have found solutions to many previously unsolved (by me) problems in this way.

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Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAl researcher who'd also been touting GPT-5's accomplishments, then acknowledged that "only solutions in the literature were found," but he suggested this remains a real accomplishment: "I know how hard it is to search the literature."
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Unfortunately, today I could not goooooo back to bed because I had a preaching gig. But now I am back home and will change into comfortable clothes and start doing some prep work for tonight’s dinner.
A balding white man with black wire-frame glasses and a gray mustache holds a coffee mug near his face. The mug has a rough outline of an elephant in red, with the words “let’s fuckin’ goooooooooo” above it, and the words “back to bed“ beneath it. In the background, we see a couple of pieces of art hanging on a beige wall.
October 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Twelve paragraphs to get to what should be the lede.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Experts in employment law have previously cautioned that the politically divisive language shared by government agencies appeared to violate the Hatch Act, a law devised to ensure that the federal work force operates free of political influence or coercion.
October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Just got a new iPad to replace one from 2019that was getting flaky, so now I’m on iPadOS 26…

And the keyboard on the BlueSky app has become the most hideous thing I have ever seen in my life.
The keyboard layout for the BlueSky app on iPadOS 26.
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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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.
October 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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(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.
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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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.
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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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.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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!
September 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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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
September 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Not Hilbert’s 10th… but in a similar vein? Older son made this for us about 8 years ago. Repurposes a t-shirt that the math grad student association at Boston University made on the occasion of the big conference on FLT in 1995…
One side of a throw pillow made from a grey T-shirt with a concise proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem on it. Back side of a throw pillow made from a grey T-shirt with a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem on it. This side contains the list of cited works.
September 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Enjoying a long weekend away from work! But will be looking over a joint paper later in the day to see how to address the referee’s comments.
A selfie of white man with a gray mustache and black wire rum glasses holding a cappuccino. In the background there is a partially covered patio/walkway with potted plants.
September 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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When you’re a mathematician, you have to get used to eccentric on-screen representations of your profession.
Donal Logue playing the mathematician Dr Gunter Janek in the movie Sneakers. He is wearing a cream sport coat over a white turtleneck, and he is standing in front of a white wall, lecturing. His handwritten slide transparencies are being projected on him and the wall; they are full of mathematical notation.
September 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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It’s always a pleasure, when reading books of a certain vintage, to find the author uses “thriven” for the past participle of “thrive.”
Google ngram comparing the usage of “has thriven” to “has thrived” in its corpus of English language texts from 1800 to 2022. “Has thriven” has essentially 0 usage since 1850, and even before that it was much more infrequently used than “has thrived.”
September 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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My coffee was long ago… but the not-quite empty mug was still by my bedside, so here is a nearly-dinnertime MCD on the back deck.
An older balding white man with glasses and a grey mustache, wearing a blue shirt and holding a coffee mug with an old-timey version of the Wilbur’s Cocoa logo on it. In the background are trees and bushes in a back yard.
September 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Don’t know, but it’s always a good day to post this image. ⚞wink!⚟
Old print ad for a French liver remedy called “Hepatior,” showing a smiling (and buff!) Prometheus chained to a rock with an eagle pulling out his liver. He is giving us a jaunty wink.
September 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM