Abraham de Moivre
Mathematician, Academic
1667 – 1754
Who was Abraham de Moivre?
Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, one of those that link complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling. Among his fellow Huguenot exiles in England, he was a colleague of the editor and translator Pierre des Maizeaux.
De Moivre wrote a book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, said to have been prized by gamblers. De Moivre first discovered Binet's formula, the closed-form expression for Fibonacci numbers linking the nth power of the golden ratio φ to the nth Fibonacci number.
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- Born
- May 26, 1667
Vitry-le-François - Also known as
- Abraham Demoivre
- Religion
- Calvinism
- Nationality
- France
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Academy of Saumur
- Lived in
- Champagne-Ardenne
- England
- Died
- Nov 27, 1754
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013