abraham de moivre

     

Abraham e Moivre (May 26, 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France – November 27, 1754 in London, England; pronounced [abʁam də mwavʁ]) was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and 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.

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