Abraham de Moivre

Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667–November 27, 1754) was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and was a friend of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley.

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• de Moivre, Abraham
• Moivre [De Moivre, Demoivre, Abraham De]