Abraham de Moivre FRS (French pronunciation: [abʁaam də mwavʁ]; 26 May 1667 – 27 November 1754) was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula...
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In mathematics, de Moivre's formula (also known as de Moivre's theorem and de Moivre's identity) states that for any real number x and integer n it is...
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the second edition of The Doctrine of Chances by Abraham de Moivre, published in 1738. Although de Moivre did not use the term "Bernoulli trials", he wrote...
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De Moivre's Law is a survival model applied in actuarial science, named for Abraham de Moivre. It is a simple law of mortality based on a linear survival...
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Moivre may refer to: Abraham de Moivre de Moivre's formula 28729 Moivre Moivre, Marne This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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The Doctrine of Chances (category Abraham de Moivre)
written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718. De Moivre wrote in English because he resided in England...
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Stirling, though a related but less precise result was first stated by Abraham de Moivre. One way of stating the approximation involves the logarithm of the...
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{\displaystyle \int _{-\infty }^{\infty }e^{-x^{2}}\,dx={\sqrt {\pi }}.} Abraham de Moivre originally discovered this type of integral in 1733, while Gauss published...
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Poisson distribution (category Abraham de Moivre)
length. The result had already been given in 1711 by Abraham de Moivre in De Mensura Sortis seu; de Probabilitate Eventuum in Ludis a Casu Fortuito Pendentibus...
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Inclusion–exclusion principle (category Abraham de Moivre)
followed by compensating exclusion. This concept is attributed to Abraham de Moivre (1718), although it first appears in a paper of Daniel da Silva (1854)...
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