Abraham de Moivre ( 1667 - 1754 )

Birth: Vitry-le-Francois, Champagne, France (26 May 1667) Death: London (27 November 1754) Research Field: Probability, Mathematics Education: Christian Brothers' school 1672-7; Sedan 1678-1681; Saumur 1682-4; College d'Harcourt, Paris Career: A Huguenot, he was imprisoned after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685); naturalised British (1687, 1706); fled to London (1688); taught and lectured on mathematics; met with Halley and subsequently with Newton in 1692; his publication on Newton's doctrine of fluxions overseen by Halley and published in Philosophical Transactions (1695); friend of Isaac Newton (FRS 1672); in 1712 became a member of the set up by the Royal Society to support Newton's priority in the dispute betyween Newton and Leibnitz and was drawn into the ensuing quarrels which lasted until the 1720s.