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...

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 is...

the second edition of The Doctrine of Chances by Abraham de Moivre, published in 1738. Although de Moivre did not use the term "Bernoulli trials", he wrote...

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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...

written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718. De Moivre wrote in English because he resided in England...

Stirling, 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...

{\displaystyle \int _{-\infty }^{\infty }e^{-x^{2}}\,dx={\sqrt {\pi }}.} Abraham de Moivre originally discovered this type of integral in 1733, while Gauss published...

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...

followed by compensating exclusion. This concept is attributed to Abraham de Moivre (1718), although it first appears in a paper of Daniel da Silva (1854)...

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 Pendentibus...

Barnard thinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by Abraham de Moivre. Others speculate he was motivated to rebut David Hume's argument...

form is named in his honour, although the same result was known to Abraham de Moivre a century earlier. Binet graduated from l'École Polytechnique in 1806...

mathematician 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...

Gaussian distribution: the normal distribution was introduced by Abraham de Moivre in 1733, but named after Carl Friedrich Gauss who began using it in...

of research in the eighteenth century, attracting the attention of Abraham de Moivre and Thomas Bayes. Bernoulli used the Latin word urna, which primarily...

Raymond de Montmort (1708) who called it table de M. Pascal pour les combinaisons (French: Mr. Pascal's table for combinations) and Abraham de Moivre (1730)...

(1930–2024) Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003) Richard von Mises (1883–1953) Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754) Octav Onicescu (1892–1983) K. R. Parthasarathy (1936–2023)...

impact on both contemporary and later mathematicians; for example, Abraham de Moivre. Bernoulli wrote the text between 1684 and 1689, including the work...

term coefficients. Generating functions were first introduced by Abraham de Moivre in 1730, in order to solve the general linear recurrence problem....

Later figures who continued the development of the theory include Abraham de Moivre and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The work done by Fermat and Pascal into...

that the window be closed. He was, however, noted by Cambridge diarist Abraham de la Pryme to have rebuked students who were frightening locals by claiming...

second we may call a precious jewel. Eighteenth-century mathematicians Abraham de Moivre, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, and Leonhard Euler used a golden ratio-based...

would be like if the parallel postulate (Euclid's fifth) were false. Abraham de Moivre introduces the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution...

universalis, the collected works of Isaac Newton on algebra. Abraham de Moivre derives de Moivre's formula. John Floyer, in The Physician's Pulse Watch, introduces...

(Easter Sunday) – Jacob Roggeveen lands on Easter Island. Abraham de Moivre states de Moivre's formula, connecting complex numbers and trigonometry. A continuous...

Cape Colony by Johannes Burman, begins publication in Amsterdam. Abraham de Moivre publishes the second English edition of his The Doctrine of Chances...

King Edward's School in Birmingham planted in 2018, and Argentina's Parque de las Ciencias planted in 2022. More clones can be found at the Parkes Observatory...

contributing to probability theory, such as Pierre-Simon Laplace, Abraham de Moivre, Carl Gauss, Siméon Poisson and Pafnuty Chebyshev, most of the mathematical...

leading mathematicians of the time: Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Abraham De Moivre and Roger Cotes. His senses of hearing and touch were acute, and he...