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 a good friend of
Isaac Newton. He fled France and went to England to escape the persecution of Protestants. In England he wrote a book on
probability theory, titled
The Doctrine of Chances.
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