Pith Number

pith:RKBID6JR

pith:2012:RKBID6JRI7HWLCOW42E44VRMZE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unity in Major Themes - Convergence vs. Arbitrariness in the Development of Mathematics

Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek, Philip J. Davis

arxiv:1204.5143 v1 · 2012-04-23 · math.HO · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKBID6JRI7HWLCOW42E44VRMZE}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:05:18.972039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a8281f93147cf6589d6e689ce562cc912dc5a444c5e496016502317b80da086

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.5143 · arxiv_version: 1204.5143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.5143 · pith_short_12: RKBID6JRI7HW · pith_short_16: RKBID6JRI7HWLCOW · pith_short_8: RKBID6JR

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RKBID6JRI7HWLCOW42E44VRMZE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8a8281f93147cf6589d6e689ce562cc912dc5a444c5e496016502317b80da086

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eebb7fbe9af025a962300ca9569e5640c1c5d7e98cb58099c93a52a9558cf81c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-23T18:43:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53fe28e0e097d8fe3444ce40a26fae387bde82632479d499fc6589773298d7fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.5143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}