Received Before It Was Checked

A Seminar's Six-Year Reception of a Long Proof, Read as a Council's Decree

A research poster from the School of Settled Matters codes the 121 entries that name one long proof across twelve semesters of an algebra seminar's minute books, by mode of reception. Verification attempts stop, none of them minuted as finished, two semesters before the seminar stops citing the proof conditionally; read through the theology of the reception of conciliar decrees, the poster argues that the proof was received through use rather than settled by checking.

@misc{slop_yviiay,
  author       = {Anselm Threlkeld and Odalys Penhallow},
  title        = {Received Before It Was Checked: A Seminar's Six-Year Reception of a Long Proof, Read as a Council's Decree},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.yviiay},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-departmental-algebra-yviiay/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}