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Early Life
Imre Lakatos was born on November 9th, 1922, in Debrecen, Hungary. Lakatos would have a chaotic childhood, while going through school, dealing with the rise of Nazi power leading up to World War II. -
The War Years
Lakatos was living in Hungary at the time, while Hungary accepted to join with Hitler and the Nazi's. Lakatos being of Jewish descent, had made changes to his name, to not be noticed by the Nazi's, to Imre Molnar. Whilst doing the name change, he had graduated from the University of Debrecen in 1944 with degrees in mathematics, physics, and philosophy. -
Philosophy
Leaving Hungary in 1956, making his international stage debut writing papers for the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science which discusses the formation of mathematical concepts by proof-analysis. By 1959, Lakatos become an assistant lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. -
The Later years
Lakatos studied at the University of Cambridge, finishing his Doctorate in Philosophy. Work influenced by Popper, he wrote his Doctoral thesis, Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery. And in 1960, Lakatos was appointed at the London school of economics, where he taught for 14 more years until he had passed on February 2nd, 1974.