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Demoivre, Abraham

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A mathematician, born in Champagne; lived most of his life in England to escape, as a Protestant, from persecution in France; became a friend of Newton, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was of such eminence as a mathematician that he was asked to arbitrate between the claims of Newton and Leibnitz to the invention of fluxions (1667-1754).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Demoivre, Abraham'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/demoivre-abraham.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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