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Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (–)
Abraham de MoivreFRS (French pronunciation:[abʁaamdəmwavʁ]; 26 May &#;&#; 27 November ) was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory.
He moved to England at a young age due to the religious persecution of Huguenots in France which reached a climax in with the Edict of Fontainebleau.[1] He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, and James Stirling.
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Among his fellow Huguenot exiles in England, he was a colleague of the editor and translator Pierre des Maizeaux.
De Moivre wrote a book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, said to have been prized by gamblers.
De Moivre first discovered Binet's formula, the closed-form expression for Fibonacci numbers linking the nth power of the golden ratioφ to the nth Fibonacci number. He also was the first to postulate t