What is Abraham de Moivre?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Abraham de Moivre |image = Abraham_de_moivre.jpg |image_size = 200px |caption = Abraham de Moivre |birth_date = 26 May 1667 |birth_place = [[Vitry-le-François]], [[Champagne (province)|Champagne]], [[France]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1754|11|27|1667|05|26|df=y}} |death_place = [[London, England]] |citizenship = |nationality = [[France|French]] |ethnicity = |field = [[mathematician]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[Academy of Saumur]]<br>[[Collège de Harcourt]] |academic_advisors = [[Jacques Ozanam]] |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[De Moivre's formula]]<br>[[Theorem of de Moivre–Laplace]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = [[Isaac Newton]] |influenced = |prizes = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Abraham de Moivre''' was a French [[mathematician]]. He is known for his works on [[probability theory]]. He also did a lot of research in [[trigonometry]].[[De Moivre's formula]] connects [[complex number]]s and trigonometry. As he was a [[Huguenot]], he was forced to emigrate to [[England]]. He was a friend of [[Isaac Newton]], [[Edmund Halley]], and [[James Stirling (mathematician)|James Stirling]]. 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|closed-form]] expression for [[Fibonacci numbers]] linking the ''n''th power of the [[golden ratio]] ''&phi;'' to the ''n''th Fibonacci number. {{DEFAULTSORT:Movire, Abraham de}} [[Category:1667 births]] [[Category:1754 deaths]] [[Category:French mathematicians]]