21. De_Moivre Biography of abraham de moivre (16671754) abraham de moivre. Born 26 May 1667 in Vitry (near Paris), France years at a Protestant academy at Sedan, abraham de moivre studied logic at Saumur http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/De_Moivre.html

Abraham de Moivre Born: 26 May 1667 in Vitry (near Paris), France Died: 27 Nov 1754 in London, England Click the picture above to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index After spending five years at a Protestant academy at Sedan, Abraham de Moivre Ozanam A French Protestant, de Moivre emigrated to England in 1685 following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the expulsion of the Huguenots. He became a private tutor of mathematics and hoped for a chair of mathematics, but this was not to be since foreigners were at a disadvantage. In 1697 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society In 1710 de Moivre was appointed to the Commission set up by the Royal Society to review the rival claims of Newton and Leibniz to be the discovers of the calculus. His appointment to this Commission was due to his friendship with Newton. The Royal Society knew the answer it wanted! De Moivre pioneered the development of analytic geometry and the theory of probability . He published The Doctrine of Chance in 1718. The definition of statistical independence appears in this book together with many problems with dice and other games. He also investigated mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of annuities.

22. De Moivre, Abraham de moivre, abraham. The Frenchborn mathematician abraham de moivre, b. May 26,1667, d. Nov. 27, 1754, was a pioneer in PROBABILITY theory and TRIGONOMETRY. http://euler.ciens.ucv.ve/English/mathematics/demoivre.html

de Moivre, Abraham The French-born mathematician Abraham de Moivre, b. May 26, 1667, d. Nov. 27, 1754, was a pioneer in PROBABILITY theory and TRIGONOMETRY. He discovered the approximation of the BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION known as the NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. He also investigated mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of annuities and devised DE MOIVRE'S THEOREM, a trigonometric formula for obtaining powers and roots of complex numbers. A French Protestant, de Moivre emigrated (1685) to England following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In 1697 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. His book The Doctrine of Chances (1718) contained major advances in probability theory. Despite his scientific eminence, he subsisted mainly by tutoring mathematics and died in poverty. Bibliography: Smith, David E., History of Mathematics, vol. 1 (1923; repr. 1958). Homepage e-mail: webmaster@euler.ciens.ucv.ve © 2000 Mathematics School Science Faculty, Central University of Venezuela

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Abraham de Moivre From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Abraham De Moivre Abraham de Moivre May 26 November 27 ), 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 De Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François, Champagne . The social status of his family is unclear, but De Moivre's father, a surgeon, was able to send him to the Protestant academy at Sedan (1678-82). De Moivre studied logic at Saumur (1682-84), attended the Collège de Harcourt in Paris (1684), and studied privately with Ozanam (1684-85). It does not appear that De Moivre received a college degree. De Moivre was a Calvinist , and he left France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), and spent the remainder of his life in England. Throughout his life he remained poor. It is reported that he was a regular customer of Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane at Cranbourn Street, where he earned a little money from playing chess . He died in London and was buried at St Martin's-in-the-Fields , although his body was later moved.

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Moivre, Abraham De French mathematician who pioneered the development of analytical trigonometry, for which he formulated his theorem regarding complex numbers. He also devised a means of research into the theory of probability. Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley , but he never obtained a permanent position; he eked out a precarious living by tutoring and acting as a consultant for gambling syndicates and insurance companies. His The Doctrine of Chances was published first in Latin and then in expanded English versions 1718, 1738, and 1758. It was one of the first books on probability, and made an approximation to the normal or Gaussian distribution, which was incorporated into statistical studies for the next 200 years. De Moivre was the first to derive an exact formulation of how 'chances' and stable frequency are related. Analysing mortality statistics, De Moivre laid the mathematical foundations of the theory of annuities, for which he devised formulae based on a postulated law of mortality and constant rates of interest on money. First published 1725, his work became standard in textbooks of all subsequent commercial applications. In analytical trigonometry he discovered an equation that is now named after him: (cos z + i sin z)n = cos nz + i sin nz First stated 1722, it had been anticipated by related forms 1707. It became one of the most useful steps in the early development of complex number theory.

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32. Biografia De Moivre, Abraham De Translate this page moivre, abraham de. (Vitry-le-François, 1667-Londres, 1754) Matemáticobritánico de origen francés. Miembro de la Royal Society http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/moivre.htm

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33. De Moivre Abraham Translate this page de moivre abraham Historique abraham de moivre est né à Vitry, en Champagne,le 26 mai 1667, et est mort à Londres le 27 novembre 1754. http://www.lycee-international.com/travaux/HISTMATH/de_moivre/

Liste de Mathématiciens Al Khwarizmi Apollonius de Perge Archimède Argand Jean Bezout Etienne Bombelli Rafaele Boole George Cardano Girolamo Cauchy Augustin Chasles Michel De Moivre Abraham De Morgan Augustus Del Ferro Scipione Descartes René Eratosthene Euclide Fermat Pierre Ferrari Ludovico Fibonacci Leonardo Galois Evariste Gauss Carl Germain Sophie Huygens Christiaan Leibniz Gottfried Pascal Blaise Peano Guiseppe Pythagore Tartaglia Nicolo Viete François Zenon d Elée De Moivre Abraham Historique Abraham De Moivre est né à Vitry, en Champagne, le 26 mai 1667, et est mort à Londres le 27 novembre 1754. Mathématicien connu pour son théorème en trigonométrie qui porte son nom. De Moivre était le fils d'un chirurgien, et, étant protestant, décida de quitter la France après la révocation de l'édit de Nantes en 1685. Etudiant en mathématiques, une fois à Londres il continua ses études en prenant des cours particuliers et en assistant à des conférences de Mathématiques et de sciences naturelles. Il deviant ami de Newton et de l'astronome E. Halley. De Moivre vécu toute sa vie dans la pauvreté bien que ses talents fussent largement reconnus de son vivant; en effet après son admission à la Royal Society of London en 1697, il devint membre des académies de Paris et de Berlin. Travaux en Mathématiques De Moivre a publié un grand nombre d'article dans les Transactions Philosophiques , son premier livre traitant des probabilités ( De Mensura Sortis , 1718). Ce livre présente divers innovations dans un domaine mathématique qui n'avait commencé réellement qu'avec le libre de Bernoulli

34. Auteur - Moivre, Abraham De Translate this page VIdeO. Auteur. moivre, abraham de de moivre, A. de moivre, abraham moivre, A. demoivre, abraham de, Livre. moivre, abraham de LONDON A.MILLAR , 1956, XI-368. http://www.math.univ-rennes1.fr/bibli/catalogue/Auteur.htm?numrec=06199576891775

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Moivre, Abraham de Matematik, který dal základy teorii pravdìpodobnosti. Jeho dílo, které napsal v roce 1711, neslo název Philosophical Transactions . Pozdìji bylo rozšíøeno na Doctrine of Chances (vyšlo v roce 1718). Obsahovalo dùležité poznatky, Stirlingovu formuli a Gaussùv integrál. Také publikoval Moivreovu vìtu, podle které lze vypoèítat mocniny a odmocniny komplexních èísel.

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40. Lexikon - Abraham De Moivre Definition Erklärung Bedeutung Translate this page Was Wer Wo ist abraham de moivre - definition Erklärung Bedeutungvon abraham de moivre. abraham de moivre. abraham de moivre (*26. http://www.net-lexikon.de/Abraham-de-Moivre.html

Suche: Info Mitglied werden A B ... Impressum Beta 0.71 powered by: akademie.de Wikipedia PHP PostgreSQL ... englischen Lexikon Google News zum Stichwort Abraham de Moivre Definition, Bedeutung, Erkl¤rung im Lexikon Abraham de Moivre 26. Mai 27. November in London ) war ein franz¶sischer Mathematiker . Moivre besuchte von 1678 bis 1681 die protestantische Schule in Sedan , studierte 1682-1684 in Saumur Logik und Mathematik und nahm 1684 in Paris Privatunterricht bei Jaques Ozanam. Nach dem Revokationsedikt von hielt man ihn in Paris fest, um ihn zur Konversion zu bewegen. Am 27. April 1688 wurde er freigelassen und floh nach England. Er schlug sich als Privatlehrer durch und ver¶ffentlichte von 1695 an Arbeiten vor allem im Zusammenhang mit den neuen Methoden der Infinitesimalrechnung . 1967 wurde er zum Mitglied der Royal Society ernannt. Seine Versuche, eine Professur auf dem Festland zu erhalten, scheiterten. Von 1708 an besch¤ftigte er sich im Anschluss an Pierre R©mond de Montmort vorwiegend mit Untersuchungen zur Gl¼cksspiel rechnung, aus denen die 1718 erschienen

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