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Imre Lakatos
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Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher who studied how mathematics and science actually develop and change over time, rather than assuming they're built on fixed, unchanging foundations. His work matters because it challenged traditional views of scientific progress and offered a more realistic picture of how knowledge grows through a process of proposing ideas, testing them, and refining them based on what we learn.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Imre
- Family name
- Lakatos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Debrecen
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Political party
- Hungarian Communist Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Doctoral advisor
- R. B. Braithwaite
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Professor Imre Lakatos, c1960s.jpg
- Residence
- England
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- Commons category
- Imre Lakatos
- date of birth
- 1922-11-09
- date of death
- 1974-02-02
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Lakatos Imre
- influenced by
- Paul Feyerabend
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- birth name
- Imre Lipschitz
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- pseudonym
- Imre Molnár
- member of
- Petofi circle
- place of detention
- Recsk Concentration Camp
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Imre Lakatos ( UK: /ˈlækətɒs/, US: /-toʊs/; Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ]; 9 November 1922 – 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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