• Moivre may refer to: Abraham de Moivre de Moivre's formula 28729 Moivre Moivre, Marne This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    Abraham de Moivre FRS (French pronunciation: [abʁaam də mwavʁ]; 26 May 1667 – 27 November 1754) was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula...
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  • In mathematics, de Moivre's formula (also known as de Moivre's theorem and de Moivre's identity) states that for any real number x and integer n it holds...
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  • De Moivre's Law is a survival model applied in actuarial science, named for Abraham de Moivre. It is a simple law of mortality based on a linear survival...
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  • de Moivre's theorem may be: de Moivre's formula, a trigonometric identity Theorem of de Moivre–Laplace, a central limit theorem This disambiguation page...
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    In probability theory, the de Moivre–Laplace theorem, which is a special case of the central limit theorem, states that the normal distribution may be...
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    Dampierre-sur-Moivre (French pronunciation: [dɑ̃pjɛʁ syʁ mwavʁ]) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. Communes of the Marne department...
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    In mathematics, a root of unity, occasionally called a de Moivre number, is any complex number that yields 1 when raised to some positive integer power...
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  • Moivre (French pronunciation: [mwavʁ]) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. Communes of the Marne department "Répertoire national...
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    Keill (disciple) William Stukeley (friend) William Jones (friend) Abraham de Moivre (friend) Depictions Newton by Blake (monotype) Newton by Paolozzi (sculpture)...
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    may be used as an approximation to the binomial distribution, is the de Moivre–Laplace theorem. Let { X 1 , … , X n } {\displaystyle \{X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n}}\}...
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    cases, the formula for the roots is much simpler, as for the solvable de Moivre quintic x 5 + 5 a x 3 + 5 a 2 x + b = 0 , {\displaystyle x^{5}+5ax^{3}+5a^{2}x+b=0\...
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    Mathematicians Euler, Legendre, de Moivre, and Vandermonde studied the knight's tour....
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    Poisson distribution (category Abraham de Moivre)
    of given length. The result had already been given in 1711 by Abraham de Moivre in De Mensura Sortis seu; de Probabilitate Eventuum in Ludis a Casu Fortuito...
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    The Doctrine of Chances (category Abraham de Moivre)
    written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718. De Moivre wrote in English because he resided in England at the...
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    de Moivre himself did not interpret his results as anything more than the approximate rule for the binomial coefficients, and in particular de Moivre lacked...
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    ar-Rumi. In 18th century Europe, knight's tours were published by Abraham de Moivre and Leonhard Euler. A Hamiltonian path or traceable path is a path that...
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    though a related but less precise result was first stated by Abraham de Moivre. One way of stating the approximation involves the logarithm of the factorial:...
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    thinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by Abraham de Moivre. Others speculate he was motivated to rebut David Hume's argument against...
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    Saint-Jean-sur-Moivre (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ syʁ mwavʁ]) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. Communes of the Marne department...
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    functions) Derivatives Trigonometric series Mathematicians Hipparchus Ptolemy Brahmagupta al-Hasib al-Battani Regiomontanus Viète de Moivre Euler Fourier v t e...
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    Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, though it was already known by Abraham de Moivre and Daniel Bernoulli: F n = φ n − ψ n φ − ψ = φ n − ψ n 5 , {\displaystyle...
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    [citation needed] The n-th power of a complex number can be computed using de Moivre's formula, which is obtained by repeatedly applying the above formula for...
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    functions) Derivatives Trigonometric series Mathematicians Hipparchus Ptolemy Brahmagupta al-Hasib al-Battani Regiomontanus Viète de Moivre Euler Fourier v t e...
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    {\displaystyle \int _{-\infty }^{\infty }e^{-x^{2}}\,dx={\sqrt {\pi }}.} Abraham de Moivre originally discovered this type of integral in 1733, while Gauss published...
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  • was done by the French mathematician Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754) in the 1750s. However, de Moivre assumed that the mortality rate was constant. An...
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    functions) Derivatives Trigonometric series Mathematicians Hipparchus Ptolemy Brahmagupta al-Hasib al-Battani Regiomontanus Viète de Moivre Euler Fourier v t e...
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    in the form of a continued fraction; In his theory of probabilities: de Moivre–Laplace theorem that approximates binomial distribution with a normal distribution...
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    figures who continued the development of the theory include Abraham de Moivre and Pierre-Simon Laplace. In 1654, prompted by his friend the Chevalier...
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    functions) Derivatives Trigonometric series Mathematicians Hipparchus Ptolemy Brahmagupta al-Hasib al-Battani Regiomontanus Viète de Moivre Euler Fourier v t e...
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