About — The Theory of Persistence

About

Author, editorial status, licenses and site credits.

Author

Yan Senez, born in 1979, is an artist, independent researcher, image technician, polymath, tinkerer, weekend coder, and stubbornly curious mind. Trained in physical sciences, he works outside academic affiliation, at the border between visual experimentation, computation, technical improvisation, and theoretical exploration.

As a teenager reading Mark A. Ludwig and thinking about the emergence of complex structures from simple rules, he became fascinated by the Ulam spiral: the image in which prime numbers reveal an unexpected geometric structure. PT grew from that intuition: prime numbers may be the simplest, and most demanding, system for testing whether an elementary constraint can produce persistent organization.

In 2025, that older thread met an analysis of noise and information alteration in an image, then grew into an 883-page English monograph and a 913-page French monograph. Details of the genesis are in the preface.

Contact

Email: yan.senez@protonmail.com
GitHub: github.com/Igrekess
Dedicated page: form and other channels

Cite this work

If you cite PT in a paper, thesis, or post, the recommended BibTeX entries are below. Each artefact has a permanent Zenodo DOI.

Monograph

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18726591

@book{senez2026persistencemonograph,
  author    = {Senez, Yan},
  title     = {The Theory of Persistence: From the Sieve to the Standard Model},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.18726591},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18726591}
}

Mathematics articles

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19443954

@misc{senez2026persistencemathematics,
  author    = {Senez, Yan},
  title     = {Persistence Theory --- Mathematics articles},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.19443954},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19443954}
}

SCS — Sieve Color Space

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19458652

@software{senez2026persistencescs,
  author    = {Senez, Yan},
  title     = {SCS --- Sieve Color Space},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.19458652},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19458652}
}

Editorial status

Preprint. Not peer-reviewed. The author welcomes critical scrutiny and independent verification. The 59 computational verification scripts are public and reproducible.

Licences

Item	Licence
Site code (Astro, JS, configs)	MIT
Site editorial content	CC BY 4.0
Monograph (PDF EN + FR)	CC BY 4.0
Thematic article PDFs	CC BY 4.0
Python verification scripts	MIT

Credits

Built with Astro, Tailwind CSS, KaTeX. Hosting: GitHub Pages. Domain: www.persistencetheory.org.