Abraham De moivre (1667-1754) was born in France but lived most of his life 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 Duclrine of chances , which contained much new material on the theory of probability and his Miscellanea analytic, which contributed to recurrent series, probability , and analytic trigonometry
De moivre is credited with the first treatment of the probability integral,