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Lakatos was born in Debrecen, Hungary to a Jewish family where is birth name was Imre Lipschits then he had changed it during WWII to reflect his then communist values.
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Lakatos received his degree in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at the University of Debrecen
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Lakatos worked as a Senior Officer in the Hungarian Ministry of Education
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Lakatos got his PhD from the University of Debrecen
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Lakatos was charged with revisionism and was imprisoned after arguments with the Hungarian Communist party were lost
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Lakatos received a position at the London School of Economics, where the philosophy of science department at this time included Karl Popper and John Watkins. After Lakatos got his position at LSE he wrote on the philosophy of mathematics and science
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After the Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956, Lakatos fled and ended up in England where he received his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge
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While Lakatos was at the University of Cambridge he complied a doctoral thesis that published in four parts as " Proofs and Refutations" in The British Journal for the Philosophy od Science called "Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery"
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Imre Lakatos died at the early age of 51 from a heart attack, leaving several of his projects unfinished. Some of his work was published after his death
