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de Moivre

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

noun

  1. Abraham 1667–1754, French mathematician in England.



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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Since his time algebra has been applied so widely in geometry and higher mathematics that we need only mention the names of Fermat, Wallis, Newton, Leibnitz, De Moivre, MacLaurin, Taylor, Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Poisson, Gauss, Horner, De Morgan, Sylvester, Cayley.

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