See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRAHAM See also:

• ABRAHAM DEMOIVRE (1667-1754)

DEMOIVRE (1667-1754)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English mathematician of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French extraction, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Vitry, in See also:

• CHAMPAGNE

Champagne, on the 26th of May 1667 . He belonged to a French See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• FAMILY

family, and was compelled to take See also:

• REFUGE

refuge in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England at the revocation of the See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes, in 1685 . Having laid the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of his mathematical studies in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, he prosecuted them further in See also:

• LONDON

London, where he read public lectures on natural See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy for his support . The Principia mathematica of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac See also:

• NEWTON
• NEWTON, ALFRED (1829–1907)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1725-1807)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1823-1895)
• NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (1816-1894)
• NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727)

Newton, which See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance threw in his way, caused him to prosecute his studies with vigour, and he soon became distinguished among first-See also:

• RATE

rate mathematicians . He was among the intimate See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends of Newton, and his See also:

• EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence and abilities secured his See also:

• ADMISSION

admission into the Royal Society of London in 1697, and after-wards into the See also:

• ACADEMIES

Academies of See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . His merit was so well known and acknowledged by the Royal Society that they judged him a See also:

• FIT

fit See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person to decide the famous contest between Newton and G . W . See also:

• LEIBNITZ (LEIBNIZ), GOTTFRIED WILHELM

Leibnitz (see INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS) . The See also:

• LIFE

life of See also:

• DEMOIVRE, ABRAHAM (1667-1754)

Demoivre was quiet and uneventful . His old See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age was spent in obscure poverty, his friends and associates having nearly all passed away before him . He died at London, on the 27th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1754 . The 1-hilosophical Transactions contain several of his papers .

He also published some excellent See also:

• WORKS

works, such as Miscellanea analytica de seriebus et quadraturis (1930), in 4to . This contained some elegant and valuable improvements on then existing methods, which have themselves, however, See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long been superseded . But he has been more generally known by his See also:

• DOCTRINE

Doctrine of Chances, or Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events at See also:

• PLAY

Play . This See also:

• WORK

work was first printed in 1618, in 4to, and dedicated to Sir Isaac Newton . It was reprinted in 1738, with See also:

• GREAT

great alterations and improvements; and a third edition was afterwards published with additions in 1756 . He also published a See also:

• TREATISE

Treatise on Annuities (1725), which has passed through several revised and corrected See also:

• EDITIONS

editions .. See C . See also:

• HUTTON, CHARLES (1737-1823)
• HUTTON, JAMES (1726-1797)
• HUTTON, RICHARD HOLT (1826-1897)

Hutton, Mathematicl and Philosophical See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary (1815) . For Demoivre's Theorem see See also:

• TRIGONOMETRY (from Gr. rpiywvov, a triangle, /ATpov, measure)

TRIGONOMETRY: See also:

• ANALYTICAL

Analytical .