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	Abraham de Moivre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France – November 27, 1754 in London, England) 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.
		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 Jacques Ozanam (1684-85).
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	Abraham de Moivre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		De moivres formula states that for any real number x and any integer n,...
		De Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Saumur is a small city and commune in the maine-et-loire département of france on the loire river, with an approximate population of 30,000 (in...
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	Abraham de Moivre: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		De Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François, Champagne (Champagne: A region of northeastern France).
		De Moivre studied logic at Saumur (Saumur: saumur is a small city and commune in the maine-et-loire département of france...
		De Moivre was a Calvinist (Calvinist: An adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin),
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	Abraham de Moivre Biography / Biography of Abraham de Moivre History of Scientific Discovery Biography
		Moivre, the son of provincial surgeon, was born in Vitry-le-François in France and raised as a Huguenot (French Protestant) in an ever growing atmosphere of Roman Catholic intolerance.
		Moivre was the first to express trigonometric functions using a system of algebra, in the same manner that René Descartes had applied algebra to geometry.
		Moivre also had a great interest in mortality statistics for which he derived mathematical formulas for complex problems involving the maturation of insurance policies and annuities with various combinations of interest rates, age, and capital.
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		Moivre was born at Vitry and died in London on November 27, 1754.
		De Moivre is also famous for a book that he had published in 1718.
		De Moivre thought that he should sleep 15 minutes longer each night and from this arithmetic progression he calculated that he would die on the day that he slept 24 hours.
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	De_Moivre biography
		De Moivre's parents were Protestants but he first attended the Catholic school of the Christian Brothers in Vitry which was a tolerant school, particularly so given the religious tensions in France at this time.
		De Moivre had hoped for a chair of mathematics, but foreigners were at a disadvantage in England so although he now was free from religious discrimination, he still suffered discrimination as a Frenchman in England.
		Despite de Moivre's scientific eminence his main income was as a private tutor of mathematics and he died in poverty.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/De_Moivre.html (1821 words)

	De Moivre's formula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		de Moivre's formula, named after Abraham de Moivre, states that for any real number x and any integer n,
		Abraham de Moivre was a good friend of Newton; in 1698 he wrote that the formula had been known to Newton as early as 1676.
		De Moivre's formula is actually true in a more general setting than stated above: if z and w are complex numbers, then (cos z + i sin z)
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		De Moivre published his first mathematical paper in the Philosophical Transactions in the early 90's--in all fifteen papers in the Philosophical Transactions.
		De Moivre left France because of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
		De Moivre was always looking for patronage, which he never seriously found, and with several others (I think especially of the French mathematician in the Netherlands--Girard, I think--and of Michelini) he illustrates the possible tragic face of the system of patronage.
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	Biographies
		Greatly influenced by his friend Newton, de Moivre was the first to deduce a version of the Central Limit Theorem, showing that a large number of Bernoulli trials could be approximated by a normal distribution.
		De Moivre was born into a Protestant family in France.
		Indeed, de Moivre was himself elected to the Royal Academy in 1697 and in 1710 was appointed to a commission to resolve the dispute as to whether Newton or Liebniz had invented the calculus.
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		A French Protestant, de Moivre emigrated to England in 1685 following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the expulsion of the Huguenots.
		De Moivre pioneered the development of analytic geometry and the theory of probability.
		Despite de Moivre's scientific eminence his main income was by tutoring mathematics and he died in poverty.
	www.roma.unisa.edu.au /10920/Moivre.htm (321 words)

	Moivre, Abraham De (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		De Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, and studied in Paris.
		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.
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	Abraham De Moivre Biography / Biography of Abraham De Moivre 1700 To 1799: Mathematics Biography
		When de Moivre was in his 20s, however, the Crown revoked the Edict of Nantes, changing the course of his career.
		The purpose of de Moivre's work was one of pressing concern in the Enlightenment, as he and other men of faith attempted to establish a rational basis for a belief in God.
		In 1735 de Moivre was honored with membership in the Berlin Academy and, almost two decades later, by something much more surprising: membership in the Paris Académie in the country that had once expelled him.
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	Theorem of de Moivre-Laplace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In probability theory, the theorem of de Moivre-Laplace is a special case of the central limit theorem.
		It states that the binomial distribution of the number of "successes" in n independent Bernoulli trials with probability 1/2 of success on each trial is approximately a normal distribution if n is large, or, more precisely, that after standardizing, the probabilities converge to those assigned by the standard normal distribution.
		The "Bernoulli trials" were not so-called in that book, but rather de Moivre wrote about the probability distribution of the number of times "heads" appears when a coin is tossed 1800 times.
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	Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen and corresponded with Pierre de Fermat from 1654 on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.
		In 1654, prompted by a friend interested in gambling problems, he corresponded with Fermat on the subject, and from that collaboration was born the mathematical theory of probabilities.
		The friend was the Chevalier de Méré, and the specific problem was that of two players who want to finish a game early and, given the current circumstances of the game, want to divide the stakes fairly, based on the chance each has of winning the game from that point.
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	Moivre, Abraham de - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MOIVRE, ABRAHAM DE [Moivre, Abraham de], 1667-1754, French-English mathematician.
		He was called upon by the Royal Society to help decide the issue between Newton and Leibniz on the priority of the invention of the differential calculus.
		De Moivre made important contributions to trigonometry and to the theory of probabilities, on which he published Doctrine of Chances (1718).
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	Tales of Statisticians \| Abraham de Moivre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		De Moivre was born in France, but went to England to escape the persecutions to which French Protestants were then subject.
		He thus took his place at the northwest corner of the deeply interconnected world in which the science of statistics was emerging, one insight at a time.
		De Moivre and Bernoulli were both refugees from it, though it still served as something of a professional center of gravity.
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	De Moivre Abraham - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Another major step in mathematics in the 17th century was the beginning of probability theory in the correspondence of Pascal and Fermat on a problem...
		Dukas, Paul Abraham (1865-1935), French composer, born in Paris.
		He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and in 1909 became a teacher of composition...
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	References for De_Moivre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A M Clerke, Abraham de Moivre, Dictionary of National Biography XXXVIII (London, 1893), 116-117.
		R H Daw and E S Pearson, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XXX : Abraham de Moivre's 1733 derivation of the normal curve : a bibliographical note, Biometrika 59 (1972), 677-680.
		P Dupont, Critical elaboration of de Moivre's solutions of the 'jeu de rencontre' (Italian), Atti Accad.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/References/De_Moivre.html (262 words)

	The Ultimate The Doctrine of Chances Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		De Moivre wrote in English because he resided in England at the time, having fled France to escape the persecution of Protestants.
		The second edition of de Moivre's book introduced the concept of normal distributions as approximations to binomial distributions.
		In effect de Moivre proved a weak version of the central limit theorem.
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		The normal curve was developed mathematically in 1733 by Abraham De Moivre as an approximation to the binomial distribution...
		The term bell-shaped curve is often used to mean the normal curve, but many symmetric distributions, such as the t-distributions, are also bell-shaped but are not normal.
		There is an anecdote about De Moivre that, in view of his application of arithmetic progressions to the calculation of mortality tables, has a particular poignancy.
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	A Dictionary of Scientists: De Moivre, Abraham @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		De Moivre, Abraham (1667–1754) French mathematician Although born at Vitry in France, as a Huguenot De Moivre was forced to flee to England to escape the religious persecution that flared up in 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
		De Moivre made important contributions to mathematics in the fields of probability and trigonometry.
		His interest in probability was no doubt stimulated by the fact that despite his abilities...
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	Abraham de Moivre - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Moivre [De Moivre, Demoivre], Abraham De (http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/moivre.html)es:Abraham de Moivre
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	De Moivre's formula - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It can be derived from (but historically preceded) Euler's formula e
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	Abraham de Moivre
		His merit was so well known and acknowledged by the Royal Society that they judged him a fit person to decide the famous contest between Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
		The life of De Moivre was quiet and uneventful.
		His old age was spent in obscure poverty, his friends and associates having nearly all passed away before him.
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	de Moivre, Abraham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
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