Jean le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, physicist and philosopher
Died when: 65 years 347 days (791 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (/dæl?m'b??r/; French: [??~ batist l? ??~ dal?~b???]; 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.
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