Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Degrees
- Doctorate Mathematics Université Paris Cité
Why Is Jean le Rond d'Alembert Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean-Baptiste 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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