Pith Number

pith:2VJBI5XH

pith:2018:2VJBI5XHEPGLIM7C5N4Z2UDSL6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hilbert's Sixth Problem: the endless road to rigour

Alexander N. Gorban

arxiv:1803.03599 v1 · 2018-03-09 · physics.hist-ph · math-ph · math.HO · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VJBI5XHEPGLIM7C5N4Z2UDSL6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:20:43.996663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5521476e723ccb433e2eb799d50725f90ec72a30db130b8c980472b83f26214

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.03599 · arxiv_version: 1803.03599v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.03599 · pith_short_12: 2VJBI5XHEPGL · pith_short_16: 2VJBI5XHEPGLIM7C · pith_short_8: 2VJBI5XH

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/2VJBI5XHEPGLIM7C5N4Z2UDSL6 \
  | 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: d5521476e723ccb433e2eb799d50725f90ec72a30db130b8c980472b83f26214

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed9274508e1aecb125c58d612d4b76aeae05ec51c8c7534d7d6e192c29977f7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.HO",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-09T17:06:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eef0095efb062380aa694bf7d81859cbe6c028d1d8d52a8e6640cd2cefa60b4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.03599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}