Abraham de Moivre was a French Mathematician (1667-1754).He was a protestant and came to London.His contribution to mathematics was in the mathematical branch in Statistics and derived (De Moivre's theorm)- the poisson distribution and hypergeometrical distributions on statistics,the derivation of probability density function of the normal distribution distribution in statistical analysis.
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Being one of the first to give a formula for solving quadratic equations is one contribution Sridhara Acharya made to mathematics. He also gave an exposition on zero, wrote practical applications of algebra separated algebra from arithmetic, and found the method of multiplying a fraction by the reciprocal of the divisor when dividing a fraction.
In mathematics, a field is a set on which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined and behave as the corresponding operations on rational and real numbers do. A field is thus a fundamental algebraic structure which is widely used in algebra, number theory, and many other areas of mathematics.
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. People who apply mathematics to other field, but do not contribute directly to mathematical, are generally not considered mathematician.
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Pythagoras never commented on his sexuality, and it has no bearing on his contributions to the field of mathematics.