Pith Number

pith:R44ULHGE

pith:2014:R44ULHGEUNL5LGMUMKEHB4V2QL

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Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour

Alexandre V. Borovik

arxiv:1407.1954 v3 · 2014-07-08 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R44ULHGEUNL5LGMUMKEHB4V2QL}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:31:29.924980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f39459cc4a357d59994628870f2ba82e06b652aca9e682eeac6eb65adaf4354

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.1954 · arxiv_version: 1407.1954v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.1954 · pith_short_12: R44ULHGEUNL5 · pith_short_16: R44ULHGEUNL5LGMU · pith_short_8: R44ULHGE

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/R44ULHGEUNL5LGMUMKEHB4V2QL \
  | 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: 8f39459cc4a357d59994628870f2ba82e06b652aca9e682eeac6eb65adaf4354

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1d9ebcd296b2d2b7a98afe1dc948133fe6036e503fe72857db7cd0c6e97f63a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-08T05:33:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76bad47b73667c83a4f90f05f4f702926cb453ac37259feaf5324800e83b24e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.1954",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}