Moivre

I consulted a learned and friendly mathematician, Mr. George Scott, a pupil of de Moivre; and his map of a country which I have never explored, may perhaps be more serviceable to others.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

Under the name of the de Moivre-Laplace formula, the result, most important by itself, became the starting point of intensive investigations and far - reaching generalizations which led to what is called today the central limit theorem of probability calculus

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

There is no need to discuss here the precise share of each of the two mathematicians in the de Moivre-Laplace formula.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

De Moivre derived such a formula, which coincides essentially with the famous Stirling formula.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

If this “Liapounov condi - tion” holds, Qn (x) is asymptotically normal just as in the original de Moivre-Laplace case.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

We men - tion, however, one more instance whose conceptual importance is obvious: de Moivre seems to have been the first to denote a probability by one single letter

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

Shortly after the death of Jakob Bernoulli but before the publication (1713) of his posthumous work books of two important mathematicians, P.R. Mont - mort (1673-1719) and A. de Moivre (1677-1754), appeared.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

[766] Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754), French refugee in London, poor, studying under difficulties, was a man with tastes in some respects like those of De Morgan.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

I consulted a learned and friendly mathematician, Mr. George Scott, a pupil of de Moivre; and his map of a country which I have never explored, may perhaps be more serviceable to others.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765

I consulted a learned and friendly mathematician, Mr. George Scott, a pupil of de Moivre; and his map of a country which I have never explored, may perhaps be more serviceable to others.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765