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In 1944 Imre received his degree in mathematics, philosophy, and physics during the middle of world war II.
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In 1948 Imre Lakatos received his PhD from Debrecen University.
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In 1960 Imre was hired by the London School of Economics as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method.
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Imre died suddenly of a heart attack in London on February 2, 1974 at the age of 51 leaving many works and ideas unfinished which is the reason for various posthumous publishings.
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Originally these works started as a series of four articles from 1963 to 1964 but later published in his 1976 book. The book is written from different individual view points about euler characteristics of a polyhedron. Lakatos, Imre, and John Worrall. Proofs and Refutations: the Logic of Mathematical Discovery. Cambridge University Press, 1976.
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Non-standard analysis is a fascinating topic for the historian and philosopher of mathematics. First, it revolutionizes the historian's picture of the history of the calculus. Also, it is one of the most interesting signs that meta-mathematics is turning away from its originally philosophical beginnings and is growing into an important branch of mathematics.
