# Imre Lakatos

> He argued that mathematics itself could be wrong — that proofs weren't final verdicts but moves in an argument, refined through error and counterexample before anyone bothered writing axioms.

*Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1922-11-09
- **Died:** 1974-02-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imre Lakatos was born in Hungary on 9 November 1922 and became a philosopher who unsettled two fields at once. He built his reputation on "methodology of proofs and refutations," tracing how mathematics evolves in its messiest, pre-axiomatic phase — a story of false starts and fixes, not gleaming certainty. Later he turned the same skeptical eye on science, coining the idea of the "research programme" to explain how theories survive not by being right but by staying fertile. He died on 2 February 1974, having spent a career dismantling the myth that logic speaks once and sits down.

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## Topics
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