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Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert

mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist

Born: Died: French

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 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.

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French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist

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Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert was born on 1717-10-29 (French).
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French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist
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Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert died on 1783-01-01.

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