Abraham de Moivre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mathematician
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Place of Birth: Vitry-le-François, Grand Est, France
About Abraham de Moivre
- Abraham de Moivre (French pronunciation: ?[ab?aam d? mwav?]; 26 May 1667 – 27 November 1754) was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, and James Stirling.
- Even though he faced religious persecution he remained a "steadfast Christian" throughout his life.
- 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 f to the nth Fibonacci number.
- He also was the first to postulate the central limit theorem, a cornerstone of probability theory.
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