Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics
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Gregory Currie
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Article
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1979
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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In November of 1956, at the age of 31, Imre Lakatos left Hungary, going first to Vienna and then to Kings College, Cambridge, as a Ph.D. student. For his thesis he chose the topic of mathematical discovery and, at the suggestion of the Hungarian mathematician George Polyfi, he based his research on