WEBINAR: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATHEMATICS AND THE HUMANITIES OVER THE PAST CENTURIES

by IE School of Humanities

Off Campus Arts & humanities Education

Wed, Feb 10, 2021

5 PM – 6 PM (GMT+1)

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This webinar will start by describing the key role played by 18th-19th century mathematics on the foundations of many of the modern disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities, as well as the advantages and some of the disadvantages brought on by that influence. It will then follow the advances in mathematics and the physical sciences in the 20th and 21st centuries and the changes that those advances brought in the social sciences and humanities. We will finish by looking at where things stand now, the power and the limitations of mathematics as used nowadays in the social sciences, new approaches like behavioral decision-making, new philosophical perspectives brought by the new mathematics (touching briefly on quantum theory if we have time). We will dedicate some time to analyzing some common mistakes that people-even experts-make when applying simple math to social or everyday problems

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Albert Sabanoglu

Albert Sabanoglu, born in Izmir, Turkey holds a B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in History from Brown University. Additionally, he holds a M.A. in Mathematics from Tufts University. He has been teaching quantitative methods, data analysis and finance in IE Business school for the past 15 years. He has worked in universities in Spain (Carlos III) and in the USA, as well as in research in artificial intelligence and telecommunications. Currently, Albert is working on various projects on the history of Sephardic Jews and the Ottoman Empire.

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