Jean le Rond d'Alembert
1717
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1783
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France, Kingdom of France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: University of Paris, Collège des Quatre-Nations
occupation: philosopher, mathematician, physicist, musicologist, translator, writer, music theorist, encyclopédistes, engineer, astronomer, lexicographer, intellectual
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert ( dal-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛːʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. The wave equation is sometimes referred to as d'Alembert's equation, and the fundamental theorem of algebra is named after d'Alembert in French. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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