Quote of the day
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
Imre Lakatos
Born: November 9, 1922
Died: February 2, 1974 (aged 51)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Proofs and Refutations
- For and Against Method
- Mathematics, Science and Epistemology
- Lakatos Imre tudományfilozófiai írásai