DEMOIVRE, ABRAHAM

DEMOIVRE, ABRAHAM
   a mathematician, born in Champagne; lived most of his life in England to escape, as a Protestant, from persecution in France; became a friend of Newton, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was of such eminence as a mathematician that he was asked to arbitrate between the claims of Newton and Leibnitz to the invention of fluxions (1667-1754).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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