Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
1717 – 1783 · aged 66
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
- Born
- 16 Nov 1717 · Paris
- Died
- 29 Oct 1783 · Paris
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- 16 Nov 1717BornBorn in Paris
- 1754 – 1783RoleMember of the Académie française
- 1772 – 1783RolePerpetual secretary of the French Academy
- 1781AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 29 Oct 1783DiedDied in Paris
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- 1756 – 1763Seven Years' War
- c. 1760 – 1840Industrial Revolution
- 1765 – 1783American Revolution
Biography
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert ( DAL-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie.
His most famous achievements include the wave equation, also known as d'Alembert's equation, and D'Alembert's formula for solving said equation. In French, the fundamental theorem of algebra is named in his honour.
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