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Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
Poisson distribution
discrete probability distribution
de Moivre's formula
theorem
inclusion–exclusion principle
counting technique in combinatorics
generating function
formal power series with coefficients that encode information about a sequence
De Moivre–Laplace theorem
convergence in distribution of binomial to normal distribution
The Doctrine of Chances
book by Abraham de Moivre, first published 1718