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Imre Lakatos's name given at birth was Imre Avrum Lipsitz. Lakatos was born into a Jewish family in Debrecen, Hungary on November 9th, 1922. Lakatos studied extensively to become a philosopher of science and mathematics.
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In 1944, Germans invaded Hungary, Lakatos and his wife Éva Révész formed a resistance group. Lakatos avoided prosecution by using the surname, Molnár which he later changed to Lakatos honoring Géza Lakatos. In 1947, Lakatos was a senior official in the Hungarian ministry of education. -
In 1948, Lakatos earned his PhD at Debrecen University, Hungary. In 1949, Lakatos enrolled at Moscow State University where he briefly studied mathematics, He was overseen by mathematician and historian, Sofya Yanovskaya. In 1961, Lakatos received his second doctorate from the University of Cambridge in Philosophy. -
When Lakatos returned from the University, he was imprisoned in 1950 on the charges of revisionism and released in 1953. In 1956, Lakatos fled Hungary to Vienna, then settled in Great Britain, due to Soviet Tanks suppressing Hungary's revolutionary uprising.
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Lakatos was a Stalinist and had built up the communist rule, academic and cultural life of Hungary. In 1960, Lakatos accepted a position in the London School of Economics where he wrote on The Philosophy of Mathematics and Science. In 1961, he wrote his thesis on Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discoveries. In 1963, Lakatos published a four-part article, Proofs and Refutations.
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In 1970, Lakatos presented Methodology of Scientific Research Programs to collaborate and or complete the divisions in science. He revised and combined Karl Popper’s falsification and Thomas Kuhn’s normal science.
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Imre Lakatos died on February 2, 1974, at the age of 51. -
In 1976, Elle Zahar and John Worall collected Lakatos work and published, Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery.
