Claremont History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Iris Clever (UChicago)
Claremont History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Iris Clever (UChicago)
Speaker: Iris Clever, University of Chicago Title: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity: From Skull Science to Biometrics Abstract: In this presentation, I uncover an overlooked genealogy of biometrics, tracing it back to early 20th-century race science and the rise of statistical thinking about human identity. Before biometrics became a technology of controlling human identity, […]