Talk:Abraham de Moivre

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[edit] Pronunciation of name

My university maths lecturers claimed one should pronounce his surname DE MOY-VER (i.e. in an english-phonetic way), saying that upon his exile to England he insisted people did so, as he was now thouroughly english and not in the least frenchy. If anyone else has heard this, then I think it should go into the article (but it smacks just a bit of the kind of nonsense maths lecturers come up with in order to break the tedium, so I'm not putting it in myself). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:54, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

thank you for writing the pronunsiation note!

You can hear two pronunciations here.

[edit] Fibonacci Numbers

There is some believe that he discovered a method of finding the n-th Fibonacci number before Binet or Euler did. deMoivre vs Binet

See de Moivere's Miscellanea Analytica (London: 1730), p 26-42. for his solution to general linear recurrences deriving an expression linking Φ to the nth power to the nth Fibonacci number. See The Art of Computer Programming, Second Edition, 1973, p 82, by Donald E. Knuth.

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