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George Padamadan (November 10, 1932 - July 25, 2004) was a self-described amateur philosopher from India.
George Padamadan lived in a village called Thuruthur, Puthenvelikara in the Ernakulam district of Kerala state in India. He was educated at St.Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India and later studied at Loyola College, Madras, India.[1][2]
In 1993 he published a paper titled An Amateur Looks on the Fallibilist Epistemology of Mathematics, which challenged the findings of 'Proof and Analysis Theory' from Proofs and Refutations[3] by Hungarian philosopher Imre Lakatos. This paper was published by the New York-based Rensselaer Research Polytechnic Institute. The Rensselaer Research Polytechnic Institute published two more of his papers in 2002, "Creative Dynamism at the Root of the Evolution of Mathematical Sciences" and "Logical Paradoxes and their Formal Resolution".[1][2]
Padamadan's passion for Mathematics saw him get into a research on advanced mathematical logic. Former student and advocate, V.K. Hary, commented in the Kerala News (July 26, 2004), that
"He was a humanist and never complained about anything except that he had practically no one to interact at his desired level of Mathematics. But he continued to work silently"
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July 26, 2004-KeralaNews-A great mathematician dies unnoticed in Kerala
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