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SUMMARY:Calculative Reasoning: Colonial Tool to Democratic Compulsion - Sa
 yori Ghoshal (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
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DESCRIPTION:How do the histories of colonialism and imperialism impact the
  history of mathematical and statistical reasoning? Although histories of 
 science have accounted for the problems of scientific knowledge within col
 onial contexts\, histories of mathematics and statistics have yet to engag
 e more critically with imperialism\, colonialism\, postcolonialism\, natio
 nalism\, and democracy. Using examples from my research on the history of 
 statistics in modern India\, I will reflect on how such big picture analys
 es\, of the intersectional relation between calculative reasoning and geop
 olitics\, can show us: 1) how the history of mathematics and statistics re
 main embedded in state politics and political thought\, 2) how calculative
  reasoning informs political structures\, and 3) how the history of such d
 isciplines has multiple origins and trajectories much like other sciences.
  This talk will thus reflect on possible ways of bridging the gap between 
 history of science\, history of politics\, and the history of mathematics 
 and statistics.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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