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De Moivre's original derivation of the normal curve in a 7 page Note in Latin and its English translations in the 1738 and 1756 editions of his The Doctrine of Chances are described. Karl Pearson's ...

IN a historical note by Karl Pearson in 19241, evidence was presented which shows that Abraham De Moivre (1667–1754) invented the normal curve and the normal probability integral about 1721. The name ...

GREGORY'S series, on which are founded nearly all the methods of obtaining the approximate value of π, is made to depend, in works on trigonometry, on De Moivre's theorem and results flowing from it.