Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician. He is known for his works on probability theory. He also did a lot of research in trigonometry.De Moivre's formula connects complex numbers and trigonometry. As he was a Huguenot, he was forced to emigrate to England. 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.
Abraham de Moivre | |
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 Abraham de Moivre | |
| Born | 26 May 1667 |
| Died | 27 November 1754 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Academy of Saumur Collège de Harcourt |
| Known for | De Moivre's formula Theorem of de Moivre–Laplace |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematician |
| Academic advisors | Jacques Ozanam |
| Influences | Isaac Newton |
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.