Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1974)

Imre Lakatos

Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922–1974)

Imre Lakatos 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…