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The 8 pages that link to Abraham de Moivre, each with the reason it gives.

• Generating functionRelated: His treatment of recurrence sequences anticipated algebraic methods based on their generating series.

• Normal distributionRelated: His 1733 approximation anticipated the normal curve's role in probability.

• Inclusion–exclusion principleRelated: His work helped develop early systematic treatments of the counting method.

• Gaussian integralRelated: His approximation introduced the Gaussian form whose normalization invokes the integral.

• De Moivre's formulaRelated: The identity bears his name and appeared in his mathematical work.

• History of probabilityRelated: His approximations anticipated a central tool of nineteenth-century probability.

• De Moivre–Laplace theoremRelated: His 1733 approximation of binomial probabilities established the theorem's central result.

• Bienaymé's identityRelated: His analysis of repeated trials helped shape the mathematical context for variance identities.