Rector of KAEU Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya participated as a speaker in the online seminar on "Perception of Mathematical Thinking in the Modern Age" organized by Istanbul Ticaret University on March 8, 2022. In the seminar moderated by Prof. Dr. Necip Şimşek, Head of the Department of Mathematics at Istanbul Ticaret University, Karakaya spoke on mathematics and immaterial thinking in the modern era.

The West Revealed a New Perspective of Nature

Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya, who started his speech by stating that the West had revealed a new perspective of nature by re-reading Aristotle, said that the quantitative nature theory was put forward by scientists such as Descartes and Galileo. Karakaya noted that Descartes developed his own method by saying "Geometry is as precise as knowledge of God" at a time when reliable knowledge was knowledge of God but Karakaya stated that this could only be a method of the countable and measurable world. In his speech, Karakaya pointed out that mathematics would live as long as humanity exists, and mentioned that mathematics was a competency in human beings.

Mathematics Cannot Be Done Without Being Reaching the Existence

In the continuation of his speech, Rector Karakaya commented that after mathematics separated from existence, it entered the universe of incorporeal thinking. Karakaya drew attention that there is no mathematics in the world without existence. Karakaya said that therefore existence must reach the form, otherwise, a concept called mathematics would become meaningless. Reminding that the state of matter in mental imagery must reach the form, Prof. Dr. Vatan Karakaya stated that otherwise mathematics cannot be done. Emphasizing that what we should be understood from this point was that mathematics was a quality of human beings' abstract thinking on existence, Karakaya commented that mathematics was the first point where it would separate from matter, which alienates itself from matter.

The degree that One can Figure out the Qualities of the Creator is Based on the Capability of our Mind

Lastly, Karakaya pointed out that Allah does not create anything without rules, he said: "There is a rule even for the distance of the things we see randomly, there is a rule for those that move in that object. What rule? It's a rule that's clear enough to be justified by math. Then we say, what is behind it? Those "what ifs" will lead people to think more broadly and to look more freely. This point of view is what the country needs. It should be able to destroy the existing and reveal the truth, but it must be done by proving it, via real-life math. At this point, you say that "The degree that we can figure out the qualities of the Creator is based on the capability of our mind" only when you do not just look at the matter, but also at the Creator.