Abraham De Moivre (1667-1754) was born in France but lived most of his in England, becoming an intimate friend of Isaac Newton. He is particularly noted for his work Annuities upon Lives, which played an important role in the history of actuarial mathematics, his Doctrine of Chances, which contained much new material on the theory of probability, and his Miscellanea analytica, which contributed to recurrent series, probability, and analytic trigonometry. De Movivre is credited with the first treatment of the probability integral, and of (essentially) the normal frequency curve so important in the study of statistics. The misnamed Stirling’x formula, which says that for vory large n is due to De Moivre and is highly useful for approximating factorialx of large numbers. The familiar formula know by De Moivre’s name and found in every theory of equations text book, was familiar to De Moivre for the case where n is a positive integer. This formula has become the keystone of analytic trigonometry Rather interesting is the fable often told of De Moivre’s drath. According to the story De Moivre noticed that each day he required a quarter of an hour more sleep than on the preceding day. Whenthe arithmetic progression reached 24 De Moivre passed away. Every student of the calculus is familiar with the name of the English man Brook Taylor (1685-1731) and the name of the Scotsrrnan Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), through the very useful Taylor’s exparion and Maclaurin’s expansion of a function. It was in 1715 that Taylor published ( with no consideration of convergence) his well-known expansion theorem,In 1717 Taylor applied his series to the solution of numerical equations as follows Let a be an approximation to a root of discard all powers of h above the second substitute the values of and then solve for h. By successive applications of this process. And closer approximations can be obtained. Some work done by Taylor in the theory of perspective has found recent application in the treatment of photogrammetry the science of surveying by means of photographs taken from an airplane. Maclaurin was one of the ablest mathematicians of the century. The so-called Maclaurin expansion is nothing but the where in the Taylor expansion above and was actually given by James Stirling 25 years before Maclaurin used it in 1742. Maclaurin did very notable work in geometry, particularly in the study of higherv plane curves, and be showed great power in applying classical geometry to physical problems. Among his many papers in applied mathematics is a prize-winning memoir on the mathematical theory of tides.
Abraham De Moivre (1667-1754) was born in France but lived most of his in England, becoming an intimate friend of Isaac Newton. He is particularly noted for his work Annuities upon Lives, which played an important role in the history of actuarial mathematics, his Doctrine of Chances, which contained much new material on the theory of probability, and his Miscellanea analytica, which contributed to recurrent series, probability, and analytic trigonometry. De Movivre is credited with the first treatment of the probability integral, and of (essentially) the normal frequency curve so important in the study of statistics. The misnamed Stirling’x formula, which says that for vory large n is due to De Moivre and is highly useful for approximating factorialx of large numbers. The familiar formula know by De Moivre’s name and found in every theory of equations text book, was familiar to De Moivre for the case where n is a positive integer. This formula has become the keystone of analytic trigonometry Rather interesting is the fable often told of De Moivre’s drath. According to the story De Moivre noticed that each day he required a quarter of an hour more sleep than on the preceding day. Whenthe arithmetic progression reached 24 De Moivre passed away. Every student of the calculus is familiar with the name of the English man Brook Taylor (1685-1731) and the name of the Scotsrrnan Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), through the very useful Taylor’s exparion and Maclaurin’s expansion of a function. It was in 1715 that Taylor published ( with no consideration of convergence) his well-known expansion theorem,In 1717 Taylor applied his series to the solution of numerical equations as follows Let a be an approximation to a root of discard all powers of h above the second substitute the values of and then solve for h. By successive applications of this process. And closer approximations can be obtained. Some work done by Taylor in the theory of perspective has found recent application in the treatment of photogrammetry the science of surveying by means of photographs taken from an airplane. Maclaurin was one of the ablest mathematicians of the century. The so-called Maclaurin expansion is nothing but the where in the Taylor expansion above and was actually given by James Stirling 25 years before Maclaurin used it in 1742. Maclaurin did very notable work in geometry, particularly in the study of higherv plane curves, and be showed great power in applying classical geometry to physical problems. Among his many papers in applied mathematics is a prize-winning memoir on the mathematical theory of tides.
Abraham De Moivre (1667-1754) was born in France but lived most of his in England, becoming an intimate friend of Isaac Newton. He is particularly noted for his work Annuities upon Lives, which played an important role in the history of actuarial mathematics, his Doctrine of Chances, which contained much new material on the theory of probability, and his Miscellanea analytica, which contributed to recurrent series, probability, and analytic trigonometry