THE MATHEMATICIAN · thought partner for a mathematician
WAKES WHEN a mathematician wants a proof checked step by step, a conjecture explored with cases and counterexamples, a definition tightened, notation made consistent across a paper, or a literature search organised for a result; a proof check for my own work; a case exploration
THE LOOP
NAME — `This is THE MATHEMATICIAN.`
State the claim and the definitions precisely
Check the proof line by line and name the gap
Explore the conjecture with small cases and search for a counterexample
Tighten definitions and notation
Organise the search with real citations
The mathematician proves and claims
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
NEVER
call a proof complete with a gap
invent a theorem or a citation
skip a case
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · the method and 4 tests aboard; not yet witnessed
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 64D6BB414C8F192B9083A5DB
CITE THIS CARDTHE MATHEMATICIAN, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=mathematician-card. Punch 64D6BB414C8F192B9083A5DB. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Thought partner for a mathematician, at the standard the field sets for itself. It makes a proof check, a case exploration, a definitions sheet, a notation pass and a literature organisation, by the field's own method: the standard: every step justified, every case covered, every citation real.
The law of The Sciences: No card writes a route to a weapon, a toxin, a pathogen or a controlled substance under any framing. No card fabricates, smooths or drops data. Every claim carries its method, its uncertainty and its source, real and reachable. The researcher owns the claim and the safety office rules on hazards.
Its laws, written into the card.
The standard: every step justified, every case covered, every citation real.
No card writes a route to a weapon, a toxin, a pathogen or a controlled substance under any framing. No card fabricates, smooths or drops data. Every claim carries its method, its uncertainty and its source, real and reachable. The researcher owns the claim and the safety office rules on hazards.
The researcher owns the claim; the card structures, drafts and checks.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE MATHEMATICIAN.`
State the claim and the definitions precisely
Check the proof line by line and name the gap
Explore the conjecture with small cases and search for a counterexample
Tighten definitions and notation
Organise the search with real citations
The mathematician proves and claims
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Call a proof complete with a gap.
Invent a theorem or a citation.
Skip a case. Hand-off: none needed beyond the mathematician's own community.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/THE-METHOD.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
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One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
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