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.

External links

• http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/De_Moivre.html
• http://euler.ciens.ucv.ve/English/mathematics/demoivre.html
• http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/moivre.html