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Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 - November 27, 1754), 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 a good friend of Isaac Newton.

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http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/De_Moivre
http://euler.ciens.ucv.ve/English/mathematics/demoivre
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/moivre

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