Mathematician:Abraham de Moivre

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

• De Moivre's Formula

Results named for Abraham de Moivre can be found here.

Publications

• 1718: The 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)