According to a possibly apocryphal story, Newton, in the later years of his life, used to refer people posing mathematical questions to him to de Moivre, saying, "He knows all these things better than I do."
De acordo cunha historia posiblemente apócrifa, Newton, nos seus últimos anos, adoitaba falar sobre de Moivre á xente que lle formulaba cuestións matemáticas dicindo "sabe todas estas cousas mellor ca min".