Abraham de Moivre

Ivo Schneider

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 45-51 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The first textbook of a calculus of probabilities to contain a form of local central limit theorem grew out of the activities of the lonely Huguenot de Moivre who was forced up to old age to make his living by solving problems of games of chance and of annuities on lives for his clients whom he used to meet in a London coffeehouse.

Keywords: Central Limit Theorem; Single Life; Joint Life; Infinitesimal Calculus; Local Central Limit Theorem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_9

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