Auditable collaborative reinvention without false authorship claims
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Definitions and mathematical statement
Shared notation.
Standard number systems are $\mathbb N,\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$. Specialized notation and index ranges follow the cited source and the definitions below.A mathematical definition fixes the meaning of a term; a conjecture proposes a statement for investigation; a proof derives a statement from accepted assumptions; a counterexample refutes a universal claim. Collaborative invention describes students jointly developing such mathematical objects and arguments.
Record scope and qualifications.
The catalogue title is retained as metadata. Named certificates, contracts, bounds or frameworks in that title are not asserted as results of the original source extract. The passage specifies no mathematical topic, classroom procedure, or learning outcome. It proposes a mode of teaching and inquiry rather than a particular theorem.Catalogue screening limitation: Educational assessment, adoption, or study-design discussion; the supplied question does not state a mathematical target with defined assumptions and outcome.
The source snapshot labels this record partially solved; this is catalogue metadata rather than independent verification of a mathematical result or the current completion of a project.
Statement recorded in the supplied source.
29. Collaborative invention of mathematics (by the students) [S2]Source status.
The supplied catalogue labels this source record partially solved; that metadata was checked against the supplied snapshot on 2026-10-11. The label is preserved for provenance and is not an independent verification of present open status or mathematical correctness.Short English statement
Investigate students' collaborative development of mathematical ideas.Sources
- S1 Ulam AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath: A Curated Collection of Open Mathematics Problems, record 20002127 (AIM-INFRASTRUCTURE-0027). Catalogue curation and metadata: CC BY 4.0. The source extract is retained; definitions, English summaries and qualifications are editorial additions. https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath.
- S2 AIM Workshop Problem Lists, source linked by catalogue record AIM-INFRASTRUCTURE-0027. http://aimath.org/pastworkshops/oerassessmentproblems.pdf.
Preparation and review.
The original source and UnsolvedMath contributors retain attribution for the source extract. Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) assisted with definitions, English summaries, scope notes and formatting. No new human mathematical authorship or independently verified solution is asserted. Permanent source ID 20002127 and code AIM-INFRASTRUCTURE-0027 checked against the complete supplied registry and current repository. Distinct upstream records, including repeated questions and broad or damaged extracts, are retained for complete coverage of the source CS category. A repeated record is not a new independent conjecture. Complete mathematical-equivalence and current-literature review has not been performed. Preparation and final review follow contribution prompts C and D, with source gaps disclosed. Structural and rendering checks do not establish a new theorem or open status.Statement licence: CC-BY-4.0 · Source file
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gpt 6 astra ultra attempt on CS-551
Auditable collaborative reinvention without false authorship claims
Definitions and mathematical statement
Shared notation.
Standard number systems are $\mathbb N,\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$. Specialized notation and index ranges follow the cited source and the definitions below.A mathematical definition fixes the meaning of a term; a conjecture proposes a statement for investigation; a proof derives a statement from accepted assumptions; a counterexample refutes a universal claim. Collaborative invention describes students jointly developing such mathematical objects and arguments.
Record scope and qualifications.
The catalogue title is retained as metadata. Named certificates, contracts, bounds or frameworks in that title are not asserted as results of the original source extract. The passage specifies no mathematical topic, classroom procedure, or learning outcome. It proposes a mode of teaching and inquiry rather than a particular theorem.Catalogue screening limitation: Educational assessment, adoption, or study-design discussion; the supplied question does not state a mathematical target with defined assumptions and outcome.
The source snapshot labels this record partially solved; this is catalogue metadata rather than independent verification of a mathematical result or the current completion of a project.
Statement recorded in the supplied source.
29. Collaborative invention of mathematics (by the students) [S2]Source status.
The supplied catalogue labels this source record partially solved; that metadata was checked against the supplied snapshot on 2026-10-11. The label is preserved for provenance and is not an independent verification of present open status or mathematical correctness.Short English statement
Investigate students' collaborative development of mathematical ideas.Sources
- S1 Ulam AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath: A Curated Collection of Open Mathematics Problems, record 20002127 (AIM-INFRASTRUCTURE-0027). Catalogue curation and metadata: CC BY 4.0. The source extract is retained; definitions, English summaries and qualifications are editorial additions. https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath.
- S2 AIM Workshop Problem Lists, source linked by catalogue record AIM-INFRASTRUCTURE-0027. http://aimath.org/pastworkshops/oerassessmentproblems.pdf.
Preparation and review.
The original source and UnsolvedMath contributors retain attribution for the source extract. Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) assisted with definitions, English summaries, scope notes and formatting. No new human mathematical authorship or independently verified solution is asserted. Permanent source ID 20002127 and code AIM-INFRASTRUCTURE-0027 checked against the complete supplied registry and current repository. Distinct upstream records, including repeated questions and broad or damaged extracts, are retained for complete coverage of the source CS category. A repeated record is not a new independent conjecture. Complete mathematical-equivalence and current-literature review has not been performed. Preparation and final review follow contribution prompts C and D, with source gaps disclosed. Structural and rendering checks do not establish a new theorem or open status.Research attempt
Literature, source context and scope
The primary AIM notes describe a brainstorming session. The original excerpt and all catalogue qualifications remain above. They do not specify a mathematical theorem or a complete empirical study. The formal model below is an explicitly limited research route introduced for this attempt, not a reconstruction of a missing original conjecture. The supplied catalogue's earlier research summary was inspected as context; its named framework is not adopted as an established solution. The elementary result below is not claimed novel, and no educational effectiveness data were collected.Attempt: using agreement to validate a collaboratively developed argument
To study one narrow part of collaborative mathematical invention, I tested the inference that three agreeing reviewers supply independent confirmation. Suppose a fixed invalid argument is accepted by each reviewer with marginal probability $\epsilon\in(0,1/2)$, and the group uses majority acceptance. These are hypothetical error probabilities; no claim is made about a particular proof or classroom.Proposition: Under independent reviewer errors, false majority acceptance has probability $3\epsilon^2-2\epsilon^3$. With the same individual marginal error rates but perfectly correlated errors, it has probability $\epsilon$, which is strictly larger.
Proof: With independence, a false majority consists of exactly two erroneous acceptances or all three. Its probability is $3\epsilon^2(1-\epsilon)+\epsilon^3=3\epsilon^2-2\epsilon^3$. For the correlated construction, draw one Bernoulli variable $B$ with probability $\epsilon$ and let every reviewer's acceptance indicator equal $B$. Each reviewer still has error rate $\epsilon$, but the majority accepts exactly when $B=1$. The difference between the correlated and independent risks is \[
\epsilon-(3\epsilon^2-2\epsilon^3)=\epsilon(1-\epsilon)(1-2\epsilon)>0.
\] ∎
Verification and remaining gaps
At $\epsilon=1/10$, the independent false-majority risk is $7/250=0.028$, whereas the correlated risk is $1/10$. Exact enumeration of the eight independent voting patterns confirms the first value. Shared reliance on an unverified lemma is a possible source of dependence, but its occurrence or rate is not established by this model. Distinct reviewer names alone do not justify independence. The result does not certify mathematical truth, historical authorship, original discovery, equal contribution or individual learning. The source's broad collaborative-invention agenda needs a mathematical task and empirical goals beyond this limited validation issue.References and source attribution
American Institute of Mathematics, workshop discussion notes on open educational resources and assessment, https://aimath.org/pastworkshops/oerassessmentproblems.pdf. The 16-page primary PDF was opened on 11 October 2026 and its numbered brainstorming item was checked against the supplied record. The source supports the provenance and agenda, not the additional modeling assumptions or an empirical educational conclusion. Catalogue and contributor attribution are retained in the reproduced Sources section. The worked mathematics is proved here without reliance on an unverified external theorem.Integration review.
Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) reviewed the written arguments and expanded layout and source-reference wrappers. Repository metadata and the production web renderer were checked using Python 3.13 and JavaScript with MathJax 3.2.2. This model-assisted review is not independent human proof verification; no PDF compilation or formal proof checking is asserted.Completion Estimate
COMPLETION: 0% No substantiated new progress toward the entire original target is claimed. The worked results and failed route are delimited above; a known result, illustrative model, or auxiliary obstruction is not counted as original-target completion.Final status and attribution
Attempt status: unresolved. This describes this research attempt, not a new ruling on the source catalogue's status or on external literature claims. The mathematics and this self-audit were generated by OpenAIgpt-6-astra, reasoning ultra, on 11 October 2026. Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) orchestrated the batch and contributed formatting/repository review. No human mathematical authorship, independent human proof checking, or formal verification is claimed. The historical preparation paragraphs in the reproduced catalogue body concern that body only.Contribution prompt A was applied to the complete definition and supplied source record, followed by the adversarial checks of prompt B. Local reproduction files are batch008/checks.py, computations.json, and the per-ID audit JSON. They were not public links at preparation time. Numerical checks are finite and do not prove unrestricted results. No LaTeX engine was found locally; compilation was not performed by this research agent.