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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert
(; ; 17 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French
mathematician
,
mechanician
,
physicist
,
philosopher
, and
music theorist
. Until 1759 he was also co-editor with
Denis Diderot
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
.
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