Abraham de Moivre/de Moivre%e2%80%99s Formula

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    A good word is as a good tree—
    its roots are firm,
    and its branches are in heaven;
    it gives its produce every season
    by the leave of its Lord.
    —Qur’An. Abraham 14:29-30, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)