Pith Number

pith:7NE5DAW3

pith:2020:7NE5DAW37KN34DCB4JHSUOJG4P

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The Epistemic Virtues of the Virtuous Theorist: On Albert Einstein and His Autobiography

Jeroen van Dongen

arxiv:2002.01301 v1 · 2020-02-04 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7NE5DAW37KN34DCB4JHSUOJG4P}

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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	2026-07-05T00:38:16.885383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb49d182dbfa9bbe0c41e24f2a3926e3fbbb3605d0d7ca296962146cd6523655

Aliases

arxiv: 2002.01301 · arxiv_version: 2002.01301v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.01301 · pith_short_12: 7NE5DAW37KN3 · pith_short_16: 7NE5DAW37KN34DCB · pith_short_8: 7NE5DAW3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7NE5DAW37KN34DCB4JHSUOJG4P \
  | 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: fb49d182dbfa9bbe0c41e24f2a3926e3fbbb3605d0d7ca296962146cd6523655

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ba14401e32264395f65fe4778ee8478e6ae165240a526a14d96153c2fbb5970",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-02-04T14:27:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "163c54ac6d8aecd1cb8082104bd6650bc1f30905f985ccb3a1800ba1acbc7040"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2002.01301",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}