Abraham de Moivre (born the May 26th 1667 with Vitry-le-François - died the November 27th 1754 with London) is a Mathématicien French.

Protesting, of Moivre emigrated in England in 1685 with the revocation of the Édit of Nantes. In 1697, it was elected member of the Royal Society of London (the equivalent of the Academy of Science of Paris).

De Moivre was a precursor of the development of the analytical Geometry and Theory of probability. It published The Doctrine off Chance ( Théorie of the Chance ) in 1718. The definition of a statistical independence appears in this work, as well as many problems, for example in connection with the dice and much of other plays.

He also studied the statistics of mortality and the base of the theory of annual installments. In Miscellanea Analytica (1730) appears the Formule of Stirling (allotted wrongly to James Stirling) that of Moivre in 1733 to describe the normal curve like an approximation of the binomial used. In one second edition of the work in 1738, with Moivre credits Stirling with an improvement of the formula. One also remembers Moivre for his formula discovered in 1707, as one finds as well in Trigonométrie as in analyzes:

$(\backslash \; cos\; (X)\; +\; I\; \backslash \; sin\; (X))^n\; =\; \backslash \; cos\; (nx)\; +\; I\; \backslash \; sin\; (nx)\; \backslash ,$

Internal bonds

• Formula of Moivre
• Principle of inclusion-exclusion of Moivre

External bonds

• Biography of Abraham de Moivre on the site BibM@th.net

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