Pith Number

pith:BNH5WV5M

pith:2014:BNH5WV5MJP42WJCNCO7FAPN7PP

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Jakob Bielfeld (1717--1770) and the diffusion of statistical concepts in eighteenth century Europe

Bernard Ycart (LJK)

arxiv:1410.1449 v1 · 2014-10-06 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNH5WV5MJP42WJCNCO7FAPN7PP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:41:02.079124Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b4fdb57ac4bf9ab244d13be503dbf7bedd76c25802e868947dbb8ae82f73e8c

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.1449 · arxiv_version: 1410.1449v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.1449 · pith_short_12: BNH5WV5MJP42 · pith_short_16: BNH5WV5MJP42WJCN · pith_short_8: BNH5WV5M

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/BNH5WV5MJP42WJCNCO7FAPN7PP \
  | 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: 0b4fdb57ac4bf9ab244d13be503dbf7bedd76c25802e868947dbb8ae82f73e8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70485a19d66dde811986a35f6388386a9cb23a582b1e6145191619397f23b7ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-06T16:47:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d69eb1da8279fe2a7379f88c7c4f129a9c414a4c1072aaf50cf291a213999fd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.1449",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}