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Birthday
Lakatos was born in Hungary in 1992 November 9th -
Early life
Lakatos had a good run in his school career, winning many awards and math competitions. -
Entered the University Of Debrecen
Lakatos started attending school at the University of Debrecen. -
Graduates from the University of Debrecen
Lakatos graduated from the university of Debrecen. He Graduated with philosophy, mathematics and physics. -
King’s College Cambridge
After Leaving a short Hungarian revolution, Lakatos an his wife and her parents walked along Austria's border, not long after he would attend the King’s College Cambridge. -
Obtains Fellow Ship to write PhD, completes book.
Lakatos would write a book supervised by R. B Braithwaite to obtain, the book would be called "Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery" -
Assistant Lecturer
Lakatos was given the Assistant Lecturer position in Karl Popper’s department at the London School of Economics. -
School Riots
Lakatos became a establishment figure for the riots. He defended freedom of education and academic autonomy. -
Proofs and Refutations
Lakatos's writings critiqued the formalist philosophies of mathematics. He had believed the nature of it was misinterpreted. He believed it shouldn't of been series of Euclidean deductions. but more so end points and a dialectical process. -
Counter Example to Euler
Euler had a thesis, which said v-e+f=2. Lakatos provided nested cubes with a different. Lakatos counter example was v-e+f=4. -
London School of Economics promotion
Lakatos was Professor of Logic -
Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programme
Lakatos proposed a middle way compared to Kuhn. he went with logico-methodical ways. "the basic unit of appraisal is not the isolated testable theory, but rather the research programme." Each theory produced within a research programme contains the same common or “hard core” assumptions, surrounded by a “protective belt” of auxiliary hypotheses. This is his major contribution to science of philopshy. This changed the "true or false" mindset. -
Death Day
Lakatos died of a heart attack in 1974
