de Moivre

[ duh mwahv, mwah-vruh, moi-ver; French de mwah-vruh ]

noun

1. A·bra·ham [a, -b, r, a, -, am], 1667–1754, French mathematician in England.

Example Sentences

The curve made its first appearance in math literature in de Moivre’s 1718 book on gaming, The Doctrine of Chances.

From Literature

"This could include Imperial or other researchers seconded as members of the UMI Abraham de Moivre."

From BBC

But the advent of Big Data analytics has reraised the questions that de Moivre considered: Can we use mathematics to predict the timing of death?

From Slate

Abraham de Moivre, a French mathematician and the godfather of probability theory, was also the first-known person to correctly predict the day he would die.

From Slate

Many of the greatest mathematicians of the age, such as de Moivre and Laplace, were French by birth, while others like Euler belonged to French-speaking races, and wrote in French.

From Project Gutenberg