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<b><i><u><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Mathematics and what it means to be human</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div><a href="http://sju.ca/news-events/public-events/bridges-lecture-series/2013-2014-bridges-3"></a><a href="http://sju.ca/news-events/public-events/bridges-lecture-series/2013-2014-bridges-" style="color: purple; ">http://sju.ca/news-events/public-events/bridges-lecture-series/2013-2014-bridges-</a>3</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="4">The Egyptian writer and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature Naguib Mahfouz is quoted as saying "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."</font></div>
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Then arguably Statistics is the wisest of all sciences, posing many questions, providing few absolute answers. In this talk, data and statistical graphics guide an interview with an historian concerning some of the historical truths and myths that surround
the development of our society, culture, health and economic development. Situating data within an historical context will sometimes generate interesting questions that are not easily answerable, and in some cases provide answers that suggest we may not yet
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><font size="4"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Douglas Peers </b>is Dean of Arts and Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on the origins and consolidation of the colonial state in
19th century India, with particular reference to the militarization of colonial cultures and institutions. He co-edited <i>India and the British Empire</i> (2012), a companion volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire. </font><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Don McLeish</b> is Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo where he has taught since 1982. His research is in probability, statistical methods
and their application to financial data including Monte Carlo methods,. He was cofounder of the University of Waterloo's Center for Advanced Studies in Finance, and author of many papers and three books in Statistics and Monte Carlo Methods. He was president
of the Statistical Society of Canada (2010-2011) and was awarded the SSC gold medal in 2007.</font></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This event is part of the <b>Bridges lecture series </b>sponsored<b> </b>by<b> St. Jerome's University, </b>the<b> uWaterloo Faculty of Mathematics, </b>and<b> </b>the<b> uWaterloo Faculty of
Arts.</b> Each of the series' public lectures is delivered jointly by a mathematician and a non-mathematician. More informations about the series can be found at <a href="http://sju.ca/bridges" style="color: purple; ">sju.ca/bridges</a></span></div>
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