Mathematician:Abraham de Moivre
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Mathematician
French mathematician best known for De Moivre's Formula.
Also noted for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 26 May 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France.
- Died: 27 November 1754 in London, England.
Theorems
Results named for Abraham de Moivre can be found here.
Publications
- 1718: Doctrine of Chances
- 1722: De Fractionibus Algebraicis Radicalitate Immunibus ad Fractiones Simpliciores Reducendis, Deque Summandis Terminis Quarumdam Serierum Aequali Intervallo a Se Distantibus (Phil. Trans. Vol. 32: pp. 162 – 178) www.jstor.org/stable/103594
- 1730: Miscellanea Analytica
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Abraham de Moivre": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): de Moivre, Abraham (1667-1754)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): de Moivre, Abraham (1667-1754)
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): De Moivre, Abraham (1667-1754)