Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1793)

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717–1783)

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…