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Abraham de Moivre
Abraham de Moivre
(26 May 1667 in
Vitry-le-François
,
Champagne
,
France
– 27 November 1754 in
London, England
; ) was a
French
mathematician
known for
de Moivre's formula
, one of those that link
complex numbers
and
trigonometry
, and for his work on the
normal distribution
and
probability theory
. He was a friend of
Isaac Newton
,
Edmond Halley
, and
James Stirling
. Even though he faced religious persecution he remained a "steadfast Christian" throughout his life. Among his fellow
Huguenot
exiles in
England
, he was a colleague of the editor and translator
Pierre des Maizeaux
.
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