1214/ss/1177013818, The result, obtained using a formula originally proved by de Moivre but now called Stirling's formula, occurs in his `Doctrine of Chances' of...

in the form of a continued fraction; In his theory of probabilities: de Moivre–Laplace theorem that approximates binomial distribution with a normal distribution...

contributing to probability theory, such as Pierre-Simon Laplace, Abraham de Moivre, Carl Gauss, Siméon Poisson and Pafnuty Chebyshev, most of the mathematical...