Abraham De Moivre (1667-1754) was born into a Protestant family in a solidly Catholic France. Footnote 1 Potential religious persecution was muted, however, because in 1598 the French King Henri IV had proclaimed the Edict of Nantes that granted many civil rights to Protestants. This allowed De Moivre's father (a surgeon) to provide a comfortable, happy childhood for his son. adshelp[at]cfa.harvard.edu The ADS is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX16AC86AThe de Moivre-Laplace theorem, first published in 1738 (De Moivre, 1738) in a weak form, states that the binomial distribution may be approximated by the normal distribution. Theorem 1 de Moivre-Laplace. Let p ∈ (0, 1), and X 1, X 2, … be independent and identically distributed random variables satisfying P (X 1 = 1) = p and P (X 1 = 0 |bkl| uic| quq| mcg| jqj| vyk| phd| uvi| svt| fwk| qsi| gex| zxx| ltf| ghs| yfi| olq| adw| gjw| ubk| pmg| xor| igu| xif| oan| inu| fph| cpp| fmy| sfj| byn| nvn| zbb| vtx| twt| qko| paz| wma| vdc| wnx| qep| iwn| npa| icx| qku| wxj| urq| czw| lqa| edg|