Abraham de Moivre (Moivre Abraham de)

(1667-1754)
Born May 26, 1667 in Vitry (France). Soon after the abolition of the Edict of Nantes (1685) fled to England, where he lived until the end of life. In 1697 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of London. One of the closest friends of Isaac Newton, Moivre carried out his instructions and acted on his behalf, in particular during the priority dispute between Newton and Leibniz about the creation of the infinitesimal calculus and probability theory. Name DeMoivre associated with trigonometric formula (cos nx + i sin nx) = (cos x + i sin x) n, . where n - any rational number, for the first time she was given Moivre in his work different analytical work (Miscellanea Analytica de Scriebus et Quadraturs, . 1730), . on the study of infinite series and complex numbers,
. In 18. Moivre considered one of the pillars of the theory of probability. Most of the results obtained by them in this area, published in various editions of Theories of accidents (The Doctrine of Chances, 1718, 1738 and 1756). Moivre first derived function of the normal distribution as an approximation of the binomial law (now called Stirling's formula). In probability theory has proved a special case of the so-called Laplace theorem. Moivre died in London on 27 November 1754.