Abraham De Moivre
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 270 years ago |
Date of birth | May 26,1667 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Vitry-le-Francois |
France | |
Date of died | November 27,1754 |
Died | London |
United Kingdom | |
Influenced by | Isaac Newton |
Known for | De Moivre's formula |
De Moivre–Laplace theorem | |
Job | Mathematician |
Education | Academy of Sedan |
Academy of Saumur | |
Lycée Saint-Louis | |
Books | Annuities on Lives: With Several Tables, Exhibiting at One View, the Values of Lives, for Different Rates of Interest. Fourth Edition, in which are Added, Tables for Three and Three and a Half Per Cent. By A. de Moivre, . . . |
Annuities on Lives: Second Edition, Plainer, Fuller, and More Correct Than the Former. With Several Tables, Exhibiting at One View, the Values of Lives, for Several Rates of Interest. By A. de Moivre, . . . | |
The Gentleman's Steward and Tenants of Manors Instructed: Containing Rational, Easy, and Familiar Rules and Tables for Finding the Value of Estates of Freehold, Copyhold, Or Leasehold, as Well on Lives as for Years Absolute, &c. With an Enquiry Into the Nature of the Annual Disbursements, Precariousness of the Tenure, and Casualties, that Estates are Charged With, and how They are to be Accounted for in the Valuation. The Tables Being Founded on Dr. Halley's Hypothesis, and Calculated by the Method Laid Down by Abr. de Moivre | |
The Doctrine of Chances | |
Nationality | English |
French | |
Field | Mathematics |
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ID | 642749 |
Abraham De Moivre Life story
Abraham de Moivre FRS 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.