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Born on 9 November 1922 in Debrecen, Hungary. His name at birth was Imre Lipschitz and he was born into a well known Jewish family. -
In March 1944 Adolf Hitler offers the country of Hungary to accept collaboration of Germany or accept the occupation of German forces. This was a tough time because Imre was Jewish by birth. -
In 1944 Imre graduated from the University of Debrecen with degrees in mathematics, physics and philosophy. He stayed in Hungary throughout the war. -
In 1959 after writing a essay on mathematical discovery he received a scholarship by Rockefeller and following he received a PHD in philosophy from the University of Cambridge. -
In 1960 Imre was hired on as a professor of philosophy at the London academy of Economics. I stayed as a professor until his death.
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IN 1963 he wrote the counter point to Eulers's theory of Polyhedrons by claiming a example to counter, by giving the equation V-E+F=4
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Imre Lakatos attempted to reconcile Karl Popper's falsifications with Thomas Kuhn’s model of scientific theory change. His major contribution to the philosophy of science was this idea of a scientific research programme. Instead of trying to falsify a hypothesis it would be shown as did it make progress or detiorte hypothesis. -
Imre died at the age of 51 from a heart attack. -
In 1986 the first Imre Lakatos award was given from the London School of Economics and Philosophy. The award gives the receipting a total of 10,000 pounds in honor of the untimely death of Imre and the work he did for the science of Philosophy. It is still given to this day.