Pith Number

pith:2WYHZL5W

pith:2014:2WYHZL5WBN3W5FJI537W3SETXJ

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Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics

Robin Whitty

arxiv:1412.3718 v1 · 2014-12-11 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2WYHZL5WBN3W5FJI537W3SETXJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:31:30.479346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5b07cafb60b776e9528eeff6dc893ba62c61f9fbb8e551d50580c7b50fd0e67

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.3718 · arxiv_version: 1412.3718v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.3718 · pith_short_12: 2WYHZL5WBN3W · pith_short_16: 2WYHZL5WBN3W5FJI · pith_short_8: 2WYHZL5W

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/2WYHZL5WBN3W5FJI537W3SETXJ \
  | 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: d5b07cafb60b776e9528eeff6dc893ba62c61f9fbb8e551d50580c7b50fd0e67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dec1da82a65cbfff6e5235a80f504906a08dae43f130f4925571a3b4950eb612",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-11T16:45:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "023dffc16a63ac2280968adfaa629592def17c3ee5509b1e345b33f2de9cfc25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.3718",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}