Abraham de Moivre
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Abraham de Moivre was an 18th-century French mathematician known for his foundational work in probability theory, including early formulations related to the central limit theorem and De Moivre's formula in complex analysis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abraham de Moivre canonical | 10 |
| de Moivre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Abraham de Moivre Context triple: [central limit theorem, hasHistoricalContributor, Abraham de Moivre]
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Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli was a pioneering Swiss mathematician of the late 17th century, renowned for his foundational work in calculus and probability theory, including the early formulation of the law of large numbers.
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
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Jean d’Alembert
Jean d’Alembert was an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher best known for his foundational work in calculus, mechanics (including d’Alembert’s principle), and co-editing the Encyclopédie.
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was an 18th-century Swiss mathematician and physicist who made foundational contributions to calculus, graph theory, topology, and many other areas, becoming one of the most prolific and influential mathematicians in history.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and theologian known for foundational work in probability theory, projective geometry, fluid mechanics, and for inventing one of the first mechanical calculators.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Abraham de Moivre Target entity description: Abraham de Moivre was an 18th-century French mathematician known for his foundational work in probability theory, including early formulations related to the central limit theorem and De Moivre's formula in complex analysis.
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Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli was a pioneering Swiss mathematician of the late 17th century, renowned for his foundational work in calculus and probability theory, including the early formulation of the law of large numbers.
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B.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
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C.
Jean d’Alembert
Jean d’Alembert was an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher best known for his foundational work in calculus, mechanics (including d’Alembert’s principle), and co-editing the Encyclopédie.
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was an 18th-century Swiss mathematician and physicist who made foundational contributions to calculus, graph theory, topology, and many other areas, becoming one of the most prolific and influential mathematicians in history.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and theologian known for foundational work in probability theory, projective geometry, fluid mechanics, and for inventing one of the first mechanical calculators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ probabilist ⓘ |
| causeOfMigration | persecution of Huguenots in France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of France
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1667-05-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1754-11-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Academy of Saumur
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Collège d’Harcourt ⓘ
surface form:
Collège de Harcourt
Protestant Academy of Sedan ⓘ |
| electedIn | 1697 ⓘ |
| employer | private tutor ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName |
Abraham de Moivre
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
de Moivre
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| fieldOfWork |
analytic geometry
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complex analysis ⓘ probability theory ⓘ statistics ⓘ trigonometry ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham ⓘ |
| hasApproximateFormula | normal approximation to factorials related to Stirling's formula ⓘ |
| influenced |
18th-century probability theory
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Carl Friedrich Gauss ⓘ Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christiaan Huygens
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Isaac Newton ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Euler’s formula for complex exponentials
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surface form:
De Moivre's formula
early formulation of the central limit theorem ⓘ normal approximation to the binomial distribution ⓘ work on annuities and life contingencies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Champagne ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Abraham de Moivre self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Miscellanea Analytica
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The Doctrine of Chances ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vitry-le-François ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| religion |
Huguenot
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Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
games of chance
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life annuities ⓘ mortality tables ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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