Pith Number

pith:NUSLS3QK

pith:2017:NUSLS3QKMJ4FHUIJCM6TZZFZX7

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La Nova Scientia: Rewriting the History of Operational Research

Roberto Rossi

arxiv:1703.03005 v5 · 2017-03-08 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NUSLS3QKMJ4FHUIJCM6TZZFZX7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:35.942235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d24b96e0a627853d109133d3ce4b9bfd8a57cd8e1e383268af77c959d93245f

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03005 · arxiv_version: 1703.03005v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03005 · pith_short_12: NUSLS3QKMJ4F · pith_short_16: NUSLS3QKMJ4FHUIJ · pith_short_8: NUSLS3QK

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/NUSLS3QKMJ4FHUIJCM6TZZFZX7 \
  | 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: 6d24b96e0a627853d109133d3ce4b9bfd8a57cd8e1e383268af77c959d93245f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "21d6ff775bd2719ee97656543eceeeb50a5ea6b05b9396087e193dc035502354",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-08T19:37:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71b15d229ab1ddf47ae69d6a72b6c68f31ed42f24b2f738c5496b7005847e5e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}