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  1. The Doctrine of Chances; Or, a Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play. (AMS Chelsea Publishing) by Abraham De Moivre, 1967-06
  2. The doctrine of chances: or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play. by Abraham (1667-1754). DE MOIVRE, 1756
  3. Abraham de Moivre: Mathematician, De Moivre's formula, Complex number,Trigonometry, Normal distribution, Probability theory,Edmond Halley, Huguenot
  4. Early eighteenth-century Newtonianism: the Huguenot contribution [An article from: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science] by J.F. Baillon, 2004-09-01
  5. A rare pamphlet of Moivre and some of [his] discoveries by Raymond Clare Archibald, 1926

41. De Moivre
moivre, abraham de. (16671754). Matematik, který dal základy teorii pravdepodobnosti.Jeho dílo, které napsal v roce 1711, neslo název Philosophical
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Moivre, Abraham de
Matematik, který dal základy teorii pravdìpodobnosti. Jeho dílo, které napsal v roce 1711, neslo název Philosophical Transactions . Pozdìji bylo rozšíøeno na Doctrine of Chances (vyšlo v roce 1718). Obsahovalo dùležité poznatky, Stirlingovu formuli a Gaussùv integrál. Také publikoval Moivreovu vìtu, podle které lze vypoèítat mocniny a odmocniny komplexních èísel.

42. Auteur - Moivre, Abraham De
Translate this page moivre, abraham de de moivre, A. de moivre, abraham moivre, A. de moivre, abraham de moivre, abraham de LONDON A.MILLAR , 1956, XI-368
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43. Universal Book Of Mathematics: List Of Entries
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44. Abraham De Moivre -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article
abraham de moivre. Categories French mathematicians, 1754 deaths, 1667 birthsabraham de moivre (May 26, 1667 November 27, 1754), was a French (A
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Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 - November 27, 1754), was a French (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician famous for (Click link for more info and facts about de Moivre's formula) de Moivre's formula , which links (A number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1) complex number s and (The mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions) trigonometry , and for his work on the (A theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance) normal distribution and (The branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities) probability theory . He was elected a Fellow of the (An honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a Royal Charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science) Royal Society in 1697, and was a friend of (English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)) Isaac Newton and (English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)) Edmund Halley
De Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François

45. Ess1454 LindebergFeller Theorem Ess1454b LINDEBERG CONDITION See
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LindebergFeller Theorem LINDEBERG CONDITION See LINDEBERGFELLER THEOREM Lindley's Equation LindstromMadden Method Linear Algebra, Computational Linear-Circular Correlation LINEAR CONTAMINATED INDEPENDENCE See DEPENDENCE, CONCEPTS OF Linear Estimators, Bayes Linear Exponential Family LINEAR FILTERING See PREDICTION, LINEAR Linear Hazard Rate Distribution Linearization LINEAR LEAST SQUARES See LEAST SQUARES Linear Models with Crossed-Error Structure Linear Models with Nested-Error Structure LINEAR PLATEAU MODELS See PLATEAU MODELS, LINEAR LINEAR PREDICTION See PREDICTION, LINEAR Linear Programming Linear Rank Tests Linear Regression LINEAR STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS See LISREL Linear Sufficiency Linear Systems, Statistical Theory Line Intercept Sampling Line Intersect Sampling Lineo-Normal Distribution Line Transect Sampling Linguistics, Statistics in LINKAGE CLUSTERING See CLASSIFICATION Linked Block Designs Link Index Link Relatives Link Tests LiouvilleDirichlet Distribution Lisrel Literature and Statistics LLOYD DAM See DAM THEORY LOCALLY MOST POWERFUL RANK TESTS See RANK ORDER STATISTICS Locally Optimal Statistical Tests Local Time LOCATION, MEASURES OF See MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE AND SKEWNESS; MEDIAN ESTIMATION, INVERSE

46. Ess0356 Classification Ess0356b CLASS L LAWS See L CLASS LAWS
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Classification CLASS L LAWS See L CLASS LAWS CliffOrd Test Clinical Trials Clisy ClopperPearson Confidence intervals Closeness of Estimators CLUSTER ANALYSIS, GRAPH THEORETICAL See GRAPH THEORETICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS Cluster Sampling Cochran's (Test) Statistic CODE CONTROL METHOD See EDITING STATISTICAL DATA Coded Data Coding Theorem Coefficient of Correlation Coefficient of Variation COGRADIENT ESTIMATOR See EQUIVARIANT ESTIMATOR Coherence Coherent Structure Theory Cohort Analysis COLD DECK METHOD See EDITING STATISTICAL DATA Collinearity Colton's Model Combination of Data Combinatorics Committee on National Statistics See National Statistics, Committee on Commonality Analysis Communality Communications in Statistics Communication Theory, Statistical COMPACT DERIVATIVE See STATISTICAL FUNCTIONALS Compartment Models, Stochastic Competing Risks Complementary Events Completeness COMPLEXITY See ALGORITHMIC INFORMATION THEORY Component Analysis Components of Variance See Variance Components Composite Design Composite Hypothesis Compound Distribution COMPUTER ASSISTED TELEPHONE SURVEYS See TELEPHONE SURVEYS, COMPUTER ASSISTED

47. Rare Mathematics Titles
moivre, abraham de,, The doctrine of chances or, A method of c, 1718. moivre,abraham de,, The doctrine of chances or, A method of c, 1756
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From: A Treatise of the System of the World.
By Isaac Newton. London, 1728.
MATHEMATICS
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Index Library Catalog Agnesi, Maria Gaetan Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della giove Allaize, Cours de mathematiques, a l'usage des ecol Angeli, Stefano degl Problemata geometrica sexaginta. Circa con Archimedes. Archimedis opera non nvlla Barnes, William, A few words on the advantages of a more co Barnes, William, A mathematical investigation of the princi Barrow, Isaac, Lectio reverendi et doctissimi viri D. Isa Bassi, D. Giulio. Dell' arimmetica pratica Bernoulli, Jean, Johannis Bernoulli ... Opera omnia, tam an Carisi, Pellegrino F Scuola d'aritmetica pratica Clark, Samuel, The laws of chance : or, A mathematical in Colburn, Warren, Arithmetic : being a sequel to First lesso Condorcet, Jean-Anto Essai sur l'application de l'analyse a la Davila y Heredia, An Demostrar la inteligencia de Archimedes, q Dilworth, Thomas, The schoolmasters assistant. Dupin, Charles, Mathematics practically applied to the use Euclid.

48. Rare Mathematics Titles
moivre, abraham de,, The doctrine of chances or, A method of c, 1718. Renolds,George. The state of the greatest king, set forth, 1721
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From: A Treatise of the System of the World.
By Isaac Newton. London, 1728.
MATHEMATICS
Date Author
Index Library Catalog Fine, Oronce, Orontii Finaei Delphinatis, regii mathemat Archimedes. Archimedis opera non nvlla Euclid. De gli Elementi d'Euclide libri quindici Vicentino, Silvio Be Quattro libri geometrici Oughtred, William, Arithmeticae in numeris et speciebus insti Potter, Francis, An interpretation of the number 666. Bassi, D. Giulio. Dell' arimmetica pratica Vossius, Gerardus Jo Gerardi Ioannis Vossii De qvatvor artibvs Vlacq, Adriaan. Tables de sinus tangentes, secantes: et de Ward, Seth, Idea trigonometriae demonstratae : in usum Angeli, Stefano degl Problemata geometrica sexaginta. Circa con Euclid. Euclid's elements of geometry / In XV. Bo Barrow, Isaac, Lectio reverendi et doctissimi viri D. Isa Euclid. Euclidis Elementorum libri XV breviter dem Davila y Heredia, An Demostrar la inteligencia de Archimedes, q Ozanam, Jacques, Tables des sinus, tangentes et secantes; e Euclid.

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Page Section A Achenwall, Gottfried Ancherson, Johann Peter Avogadro, Amedeo Page Section B Bacon, Francis Bayes Bayes Beaven Beaven Bernard, Claude Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Jakob Bernoulli, Jakob Bernoulli, Jakob Birkhoff, G.D. Birkhoff, G.D. Borel, H. Borel, H. Borel, H. Boltzmann, Ludwig Bortkiewicz, L.von Bowley, A.L. Bowley, A.L. Brown, Robert Buffon, George Louis Leclerc de Buffon, George Louis Leclerc de Buffon, George Louis Leclerc de Busching, Anton Friedrich Page Section C Cantor, G. Cantor, G. Condorcet Conring, Hermann Cournot, Antoine Augustin Cramer, G. Crome Page Section D D'Alembert Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin, Charles Robert Dalton, John Deming, Edwards D. De Moivre, Abraham De Moivre, Abraham De Moivre, Abraham De Moivre, Abraham Dirichlet Page Section E Engel, Ernst Euler, Leonhart Page Section F Feller Fermat, Pierre de Fisher, Irving Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Ronald Aylmer

50. The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Abraham De Moivre
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52. CALCULUS
abraham de moivre Markus Hering. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Siegfried Walther abraham de moivre Michael N Harbour. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Michael N
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CALCULUS Performance Schedule May 13 Berkeley, CA : Aurora Theatre: staged rehearsed reading directed by Andrea Gordon followed by post-performance discussion with audience chaired by Robert Osserman (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute). Sept. 30 London : Royal Institution: staged rehearsed reading directed by Andy Jordan followed by post-performance discussion with audience. Nov. 21: Vienna : Siemens Forum: staged rehearsed reading of Ò KalkŸl Ó (translated by Bettina Arlt) directed by Isabella Gregor followed by post-performance discussion with audience. Colley Cibber Siegfried Walther Sir John Vanbrugh Bernd Birkhahn Margaret Arbuthnot Katharina Manker Louis Frederick Bonet Siegfried Walther John Arbuthnot Bernd Birkhahn Lady Brasenose Bigi Fischer Abraham de Moivre Markus Hering Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Siegfried Walther Sir Isaac Newton Bernd Birkhahn March 15 Vienna Math Space of Museum Quartier: staged rehearsed reading of Ò KalkŸl Ó (translated by Bettina Arlt) directed by Isabella Gregor followed by post-performance discussion. Colley Cibber Siegfried Walther Sir John Vanbrugh Bernd Birkhahn Margaret Arbuthnot Katharina Manker Louis Frederick Bonet Siegfried Walther John Arbuthnot Bernd Birkhahn Lady Brasenose Bigi Fischer Abraham de Moivre Markus Hering Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Siegfried Walther Sir Isaac Newton Bernd Birkhahn Munich : Deutsches Museum: staged rehearsed readings of Ò KalkŸl Ó (translated by Bettina Arlt) directed by Isabella Gregor followed by post-performance discussions.

53. Anecdote - Abraham De Moivre - Death By Installment
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54. Chronology Of Probabilists And Statisticians Index By Name And Date
(16671754) moivre, abraham de (1678-1719) Montemort, Pierre (1678-1759) Bernoulli,Nicholus (1682-1716) Cotes, Roger (1702-1761) Bayes, Thomas
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Index of Probabilists and Statisticians Arbuthnot, John
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Index of Probabilists and Statisticians Cardan, Girolamo
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Kepler, Johannes
Descartes, Rene
Fermat, Pier de
Caramel, John Schooten, Frans van Graunt, John Pascal, Blaise Huygens, Christiaan Newton, Isaac Leibnitz, Gottfried von Sauveur Bernoulli, James Craig, John Arbuthnot, John Roberts, Francis Moivre, Abraham de Montemort, Pierre Bernoulli, Nicholus Cotes, Roger Bayes, Thomas Euler, Leonhard Buffon, Georges Laplace, Pierre Simon Legendre, Adrien Fourier, John Baptiste Joseph Guass, Carl Fredrich Poisson, Simon Denis Cauchy, Augustin Quetelet, Adolphe Dirichlet, Johann DeMorgan, Augustus Nightingale, Florence Chebychef, Pafnuty Galton, Francis Venn, John Lexis, Wilhelm Edgeworth, Francis Markov, Andrei Pearson, Karl Yule, George Borel, Emile Gosset, William Chapman, Sydney Fisher, Ronald Wilcoxon, Frank Neyman, Jerzy Deming, Edwards W. Kolmogrov, Andrey Newmann, John von Feller, William

55. Abraham De Moivre - Linix Encyclopedia
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Abraham de Moivre May 26 November 27 ), was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula , which links complex numbers and trigonometry , and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and was a friend of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley De Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François, Champagne . The social status of his family is unclear, but De Moivre's father, a surgeon, was able to send him to the Protestant academy at Sedan (1678-82). De Moivre studied logic at Saumur (1682-84), attended the Collège de Harcourt in Paris (1684), and studied privately with Jacque Ozanam (1684-85). It does not appear that De Moivre received a college degree. De Moivre was a Calvinist , and he left France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), and spent the remainder of his life in England. Throughout his life he remained poor. It is reported that he was a regular customer of Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane at Cranbourn Street, where he earned a little money from playing chess . He died in London and was buried at St Martin's-in-the-Fields , although his body was later moved.

56. Rolodex Of Famous Economists
de moivre, abraham (16671754). Mandeville, Bernard de (1670-1733). Law,John (1671-1729). Cantillon, Richard (1680-1734)
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The Rolodex of Famous Economists What makes an economist famous? There are two basic criteria, and which are at times uncorrelated with each other: recognition by one's colleagues and recognition by the public at large. Among economists, being famous tends to translate in terms of the number of published works, along with the number of times such work is cited by other economists. Published work and citations are what drives, for example, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics selection process. As Paul Samuelson once said, the only coin of worth among economists is the recognition by one's colleagues. Critics of economics have pointed to the insular nature of recognition criteria practiced by economists and have contended that all too often they write with an increasingly abstruse theoretical and mathematical jargon that ignores too many real world issues. As one economist once said when the empirical data did not fit well in a standard econometric model, "So much the worse for reality". Yet economists have exerted a powerful influence on the course of events over times and they have done so by translating what seems at times as overly abstract notions into concrete tools of understanding economic events, predicting future events, and guiding public policy. As a sampler, consider the following economists. Adam Smith (1723-1790) is famous for his

57. Math Lessons - Abraham De Moivre
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Abraham de Moivre May 26 November 27 ), was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula , which links complex numbers and trigonometry , and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and was a friend of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley De Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François, Champagne . The social status of his family is unclear, but De Moivre's father, a surgeon, was able to send him to the Protestant academy at Sedan (1678-82). De Moivre studied logic at Saumur (1682-84), attended the Collège de Harcourt in Paris (1684), and studied privately with Jacque Ozanam (1684-85). It does not appear that De Moivre received a college degree. De Moivre was a Calvinist , and he left France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), and spent the remainder of his life in England.

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60. Abraham De Moivre
abraham de moivre studied logic at Saumur from 1682 until 1684. A FrenchProtestant, de moivre emigrated to England in 1685 following the revocation
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Born: 26 May 1667 in Vitry (near Paris), France
Died: 27 Nov 1754 in London, England
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After spending five years at a Protestant academy at Sedan, Abraham de Moivre studied logic at Saumur from 1682 until 1684. He then went to Paris, studying at the Collège de Harcourt and taking private lessons in mathematics from Ozanam A French Protestant, de Moivre emigrated to England in 1685 following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the expulsion of the Huguenots. He became a private tutor of mathematics and hoped for a chair of mathematics, but this was not to be since foreigners were at a disadvantage. In 1697 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1710 de Moivre was appointed to the Commission set up by the Royal Society to review the rival claims of Newton and Leibniz to be the discovers of the calculus. His appointment to this Commission was due to his friendship with Newton. The Royal Society knew the answer it wanted! De Moivre pioneered the development of analytic geometry and the theory of probability . He published The Doctrine of Chance in 1718. The definition of statistical independence appears in this book together with many problems with dice and other games. He also investigated mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of annuities.

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