Historical and
Commemorative Medals
Collection of Benjamin Weiss
ABRAHAM DE MOIVRE DASSIER, Jacques-Antoine: England, 1741, Bronze, 55 mm Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754), an English mathematician of French Huguenot extraction, was a pioneer in the development of analytic trigonometry and in the theory of probability. Upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he was jailed as a Protestant. When released, he went to England where he became a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley. He is best known for a theorem, bearing his name for the solution of certain trigonometric functions. |
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