Imre Lakatos
1922–1974
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- mathematician
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Recsk Concentration CampDates unknown
Biography
Imre Lakatos (UK: , US: ; Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ËlÉkÉtoÊ ËimrÉ]; 9 November 1922 â 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the "research programme" in his methodology of scientific research programmes.
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