MATHEMATICIAN

Abraham de Moivre

1667 - 1754

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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, 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 1685 with the Edict of Fontainebleau. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, and James Stirling. Among his fellow Huguenot exiles in England, he was a colleague of the editor and translator Pierre des Maizeaux. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham de Moivre is the 51st most popular mathematician (up from 67th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from France (up from 450th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Mathematician.

Abraham de Moivre is most famous for his contributions to probability and statistics. He is credited with the discovery of the central limit theorem, which states that the mean of a large number of independent random variables will be approximately normally distributed.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abraham de Moivre ranks 51 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Battani, Gottlob Frege, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Urbain Le Verrier, Emmy Noether, and George Boole. After him are Archytas, August Ferdinand Möbius, Josef Stefan, Sophie Germain, Friedrich Bessel, and Charles Sanders Peirce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1667, Abraham de Moivre ranks 3. Before him are Jonathan Swift, and Johann Bernoulli. After him are Maria Anna of Neuburg, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Queen Inhyeon, Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Jan Kupecký, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Alessandro Magnasco, and Johann Christoph Pepusch. Among people deceased in 1754, Abraham de Moivre ranks 2. Before him is Mahmud I. After him are Christian Wolff, Ludvig Holberg, Henry Fielding, Maria Anna of Austria, Jacopo Riccati, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Henry Pelham, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Safdar Jang, and Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Abraham de Moivre ranks 324 out of 6,770. Before him are Patrick Modiano (1945), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Jacques de Molay (1243), and Richard I of Normandy (933). After him are Emmanuel Macron (1977), Pope Nicholas II (990), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), Charlotte Corday (1768), and John the Fearless (1371).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Abraham de Moivre ranks 12. Before him are Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), and Urbain Le Verrier (1811). After him are Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Girard Desargues (1591), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), and Gaspard Monge (1746).

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