Monograph
The Theory of Persistence — From the Sieve to the Standard Model, yan senez, 2026. English edition: 885 pages; French edition: 913 pages, ~40 MB each.
Online reading
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Editorial status
- Preprint — not peer-reviewed
- French and English editions on par (FR/EN drift = 0 on ~4,400 labels)
- Canonical registry: 45 companion Python script entries, 2,522/2,523 passing checks, 1 known failure
- LaTeX sources publicly available (monograph repo)
Cite this work
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@book{senez2026persistence,
author = {Senez, Yan},
title = {The Theory of Persistence: From the Sieve to the Standard Model},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Self-published preprint},
url = {https://www.persistencetheory.org}
}