Elected to the Royal Society, he helped decide the Newton/Leibniz controversy over the discovery of calculus in Newton's favor.
A French Protestant, he emigrated to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Elected to the Royal Society, he helped decide the Newton/Leibniz controversy over the discovery of calculus in Newton's favor. His 1718 "The Doctrine of Chances" was one of the first important probability texts, and it included his discovery of the normal approximation to the binomial distribution. FTP, name this mathematician, best known now for his formula for the powers of a complex number.
A French Protestant, he emigrated to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Abraham {De Moivre}