In this essay I will be telling you about the life of a famous French mathematician named Abraham De Moivre who had some high and low points in his life. He has some good accomplishments and a lot of studies that he had majored in during his lifetime a long time ago.
Abraham De Moivre’s was born on May 26th, 1667 in Vitry-le-Francois , France in the Champagne region. Abraham was raised as a Protestant and when he was eleven he was sent to a Protestant Academy by his parents to study Greek for four years. After that he studied logic at Saumur for two years. He read mathematical works such as ‘Elements de Mathematiques’ by Father Preset, ‘De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae’ by Christiaan Huygens, which was a treatise on games of chances . He started his…show more content… For practicing Protestantism De Moivre was imprisoned after October of 1685 until April 27th of 1688. Abraham then travelled to England. Upon arriving to London he became a private Mathematics tutor where he met his pupils in the London coffee house. He went to visit the Earl of Devonshire where he got a letter of introduction to Newton’s Principia. Then he realised how much deeper this work was than the others he had studied for and then decided he would have to study and read these new works. He bought a copy of it and cut pages out so he could carry them with him all the time and he read them in -between tutoring classes. Even though it wasn’t the best way to study the Principia he could do it because he was able to master hard work quickly. Abraham wasn’t discriminated in England because of his religious beliefs, but was discriminated because he was a Frenchman. So he was at a disadvantage for getting a chair of mathematics. He didn’t give up though and made several attempts to procure a chair for himself. In 1692 Abraham met and got to know this guy named Edmund Halley who was the assistant secretary of the Royal Society at the time. Shortly after that he met Isaac Newton and they became good friends. His
