Imre Tóth (philosopher), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Imre Tóth (philosopher)

German mathematician and historian of mathematics

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1921

Place of Birth: Satu Mare, Satu Mare County

Date of Death: 11-May-2010

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, philosopher, historian of mathematics

Nationality: Germany, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Imre Tóth (also Toth) was born in 1921, in Satu Mare, a few years after the Treaty of Trianon recognized it as a part of Romania, to a very religious Jewish family that had fled from the 1920 pogroms.
Resisting with the Communists during the Second World War and then excluded from the Party, he narrowly escaped death in the camps.
After the war he studied at Babe?-Bolyai University.
He is a philosopher, mathematician and science historian, who specialized in the philosophy of mathematics.
He worked on non-Euclidean geometry, mathematical irrationality, freedom, Plato and Platonism, Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel.
He died on May 11, 2010, in Paris